On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:53:52 +0800 Paul Wise <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: gpdftext > Severity: wishlist > > I tried gpdftext on my Debian install on my OpenMoko FreeRunner. I'm surprised that people want to run gpdftext on such a device - the expectation is more that the ebook will be modified, processed and saved on a more powerful desktop device / laptop and then the PDF or ASCII text read on a simple ebook reader. Presumably, these are quite small PDF's compared to a full size novel (600+ pages)? (i.e. I won't be adding gpdftext to Emdebian any time soon. It might be a small app - albeit likely to get bigger with future releases - but it expects to handle quite large files and really benefits from lots of RAM.) If you just want to extract the text, doesn't pdftotext provide what you need? There's no PDF or text viewer within gpdftext, it's not part of what I want to achieve with gpdftext. Is the package description misleading? > Usually the only input device I have is the touchscreen. It would be > great if gpdftext could detect the touchscreen and use the click+drag > gesture as a request to scroll the document up/down and left/right > instead of using it for selecting text. It's a PDF text editor, not a text or PDF viewer. A viewer would have that behaviour - e.g. a PDF viewer or an ebook viewer app with a text file. As an editor, gpdftext expects a keyboard as input device, not touchscreen. > At the moment I have to rely > on the GTK+ scrollbars which are quite small in my current theme. On > my laptop the touch-pad supports edge-scrolling or I have a mouse > with scroll-wheel so scrolling is much less of an issue. I'm not sure I can fix this one - it doesn't make sense to me for a text editor to handle scrolling as dragging. I'm not aware of other text editors with such behaviour. -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/
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