On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote:On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page of the document?Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and so on. The jessie version was broken wrt some keystrokes but all is well in stretch. I don't think it handles passwords, nor certain font configurations like Chase credit card statements.Synaptic does not give a valid URL for "Visit Homepage". I found [https://www.xpdfreader.com/] which I assume is correct. It is apparently more powerful than I was thinking of. I'll explore it later. Thanks.
Had problem installing via Synaptic - reported not able to find correct version of some cups related files. As I don't have a printer on the machine, I continued.
Although the man page states "You can also start xpdf without opening any files", there is not a *convenient* way to select a file to open [requires opening a sequence of multiple dialogs].
Highlighting search string works fine. Menus and controls are much too small to be acceptable.
As Curt and Alexander agree that my highlight problem with Evince is desktop &/or theme related, I will pursue that.
Thanks.