A simple question on copy/paste
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 1 04:07:14 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 22:35, Stephen Liu wrote:
> FC5_64
> ======
>
> What will be the simple way to copy and paste selected text/paragraph
> from .ps/.pdf file on text editor?
>
> Occasionally I printed technical documents on Internet as .ps file.
> However I was unable to copy/paste their content on .txt file without
> going through a long way, treating them as graphic file. Conversion
> .ps -> .pdf -> .html was not alway working perfectively without error.
> The version of Acroread (Acrobat Reader) running on this box does not
> have text-selecting function. Saving technical documents on Internet
> is sometimes prohibitted.
Evince should be the default ps/pdf viewer on FC5 and it
allows text copies via the X buffer/clipboard.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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