Ken McAllister writes: > > Ken asks: (1) Can I have the dollar for spotting the deliberate > spelling mistaak on Page 2 of http://berty.dyndns.org/KdeApps.pdf: > "the student can self-asses" ? > > (2) As well as wanting to put the fifth S into "self-assess" above, I > wanted the other day to extract email addresses from a pdf file. No > cut-and-paste with KGhostView or XPDF! > Google gives me 332 000 references to "Linux PDF Editor." The command > lines "apropos pdf" and "apropos PDF" both give me no references at all, > locally. Is there a PDF editor with Mandrake 9.0? What do others do? >
I wanted to know this as well, as I was mucking around with a bit of LaTeX class file programming and wanted to cut and paste out of something which wasn't LaTeX source --- there's not much point in following a literate programming tradition with a high-quality text processor if you end up having to read source files in emacs buffers! Anyway, as far as I can tell you can add xdvi and ggv (gnome ghostview) to the mix (I think KGhostView and ggv are basically gv done nice, so no surprises there). However, xpdf seems to work fine for me, at least with documents generated with pdflatex. Highlighting is a bit weird, though --- it's almost like highlighting things in a drawing program. I was using the mouse-button-1 highlight and mouse-button-2 paste X selection thingy, though --- perhaps you are trying the Ctrl-C Ctrl-V thing which I believe is now prevalent in gnome and KDE worlds? Actually, I've just fooled around with xpdf and KEdit, and I can't seem to paste from xpdf to KEdit, using the middle mouse button or no. I can, however, paste quite happily from xpdf into a vim session in a terminal window. There's a document around which explains the difference between the X Clipboard and the X Selection or something, but I can't be bothered looking at the moment. It seems as if xpdf uses one of these that KEdit ignores, but other programs don't. I don't know. It's all rather confusing, really. A.
