On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 11:46:16AM -0400, Bob Doolittle wrote: > Jakob Oestergaard wrote: > > >2) Seeing the discussion about the lack of a proper PDF reader... Well, > > kpdf supports hyperlinks (if that's what's missing from the other > > non-Acroread readers) - I can't think of a reason why I'd want > > acroread. With the desktop "native" reader (kpdf) I have the same > > printing dialoges etc. etc. as I have in every other KDE application. > > > > > > To me the most critical feature missing from gpdf, xpdf and other > PDF viewer alternatives that acroread provides is decent text > select/copy capability.
Like this? http://unthought.net/select.png > xpdf has a totally broken text selection > model - basically a draw function selection where you select a > region within a rectangle (which can't even cross a page boundary) > without regard for text flows. gpdf doesn't even have that and > is missing other basic features like search (not to mention it's > a dog from a performance perspective)! gpdf is just a gnome > flavored pdflaunch. Is kpdf just another flavor of pdflaunch? kpdf allows selection of text regions, and can copy either the text or the image region to the clipboard - as seen in the screenshot. You also have text search, with a handy listing in the thumbnail pane of all pages containing the selected text. For example, in the document I used for this, the word "RAID" only appears on pages 36 and 75 - see http://unthought.net/search.png > > Finally, nothing I know of except for acroread handles PDF > forms properly. This seems to be a rapidly emerging media > format, which I'm acutely aware of this time of year since > the IRS now has most of their tax forms available in PDF form > format. Do you have a PDF with forms? I'd be happy to try and see if kpdf can handle that. -- / jakob _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
