Volker Kuhlmann writes: > > Anyway, as far as I can tell you can add xdvi and ggv (gnome > > xdvi is primarily for dvi files, as it's pretty non-existant > altogether. I wouldn't bother using it for anything else (athena isn't > really much good, gv is the only app I know which has a decent athena > style).
I should have pointed out that I was using this to view dvi files. I just wanted to be able to paste from something spat out by LaTeX. > > > ghostview) to the mix (I think KGhostView and ggv are basically gv > > done nice, so no surprises there). > > kghostview could be gv done nice, but it has a long way to go before > it's as polished or has half of gv's functions. Admittedly, I haven't used it. I probably should have said 'done-up nice'. > ggv has a few good ideas, but is missing the all-important > scroll-widget of gv, spits some rubbish about not being able to read > its own resource file, and can't read the page size properly, so the > top and right of the text are chopped off. Took some searching, seems > one has to "force override page size". In summary, nice ideas but > doesn't really work. > > Me thinks I'll stick with gv for a little while longer, until KDE/Gnome > have caught up. See my post on nzlug for bzip2 extension for gv. Yeah, gv is pretty good. As you say, it's pretty good looking, which is surprising given it's an anthena application. > > Actually, I've just fooled around with xpdf and KEdit, and I can't > > seem to paste from xpdf to > > My guess is all that the selection in xpdf does is invert the screen > pixels, it doesn't look like it's got any idea about any text being > there, as evidenced by tha fact that it doesn't copy anything into any > clipboard buffers. Well, like I said, *I* can copy from xpdf, using the middle mouse button paste, into emacs and a KTerminal running vim. It's odd that it doesn't paste into KEdit. A.
