[ILUG] Linux PDF

[Brian Foster]

  | From: Aidan Delaney <adelaney at cs.may.ie>
  | Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:36:49 +0000
  | 
  | On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:58 +0000, Liam McDermott wrote:
  |  > Does anyone know of a linux pdf reader which can do text
  |  > highlighting and comments.  I basically want a linux based
  |  > replacement for Adobe Acrobat Professional.
  | 
  | AFAIK there are none with those capabilities.  The most advanced that
  | I'm aware of is  http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/  [ ... ].

 xpdf(1), version 3.00, can highlight and copy text
 into the X11 clipboard(? or whatever it is called);
 e.g., here is some text I just so copy-and-pasted in
 the usual manner from the PDF version of my résumé:

   Innovative, experienced O/S internals software engineer concerned with process and
   detail seeks technologically challenging position.

 no comments that I am aware of.  and (as I just
 discovered!), a middle-button click in the lower
 toolbar causes a segfault.  ;-(

cheers!
	-blf-
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