On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:41, you wrote: > Instead of making dumb comments, you could have given some useful info. I did. I deliberately set up the screen-shot, which is displayed at:- http://berty.dyndns.org/XpdfKonsole.png to make it abundantly clear which versions of the software in question actually work. I know for a certainty that you retrieved the image, how come you didn't see the version numbers?
> xpdf version 2.02 contains this entry in the changelog: > > Xpdf wasn't responding to the TARGETS atom, which prevented pasting > the selection into various applications. [Thanks to Phillip Ezolt.] > > I still have 2.01, and just for this I won't recompile it (works fine > with nedit). For somebody who obviously displays a above average level of techical skill it seems a bit odd to me that you feel it necessary to go to some inconvenience using external programs to extract the text from a .pdf when the simple act of bringing the software in question up to date on your machine would do the trick far more simply. > Everyone decide for themselves. Indeed, also Volker please note that making less than charming comments off list is widely considered to be quite a serious breach of etiquette. Please don't do it. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
