making PDFs workable

[Michael Havens]

Well, the reason seems to be that 'document viewer is the default. I jusat
d/l evince and can't seem to make it the default PDGF viewer. I right click
on a pdf>open with>evince but it keeps opening with Document Viewer!
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 1:18 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows at usa.net>wrote:

> > Michael Havens wrote:
> >> HOw can I make it so I can copy-n-paste the text from
> >> a pdf into a oo document?
> From: Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net>
> > The Foxitpro PDF reader allows text to be marked and copied.
> > Unfortunately, it's only available for Windows. I don't know if
> > there's a Linux PDF reader that has that capability.
>
> AFAICT, evince (the PDF reader that's standard for GNOME-based distros)
> will
> allow you to copy and paste text from PDFs as well.  Also remember that
> some
> PDF readers have multiple tools available, and the default tool might be
> "scroll/drag pages" not "select text".
>
> Also also remember that if the PDF doesn't actually contain text, but is a
> pile of images, then there will be no text to select.  The PDF that you're
> trying to look at doesn't have that problem, but for some reason, evince
> won't
> let you copy the text.  Acrobrat Reader will.  No, I don't know why
> either....
>
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