[LBo] Adobe Acrobat Reader on FC6 x86_64

[Jim Westbrook]

Randy Kramer wrote:

>>Le mardi 27 mars 2007 à 11:29 +0200, Andrew Henry a écrit :
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>>>Is there any specific reason you need Acrobat?  I use Evince under
>>>Gnome, and for most everyday tasks, like simply reading PDF docs, it
>>>works like a charm and is *much* faster than Acrobat.  Is there any
>>>specific feature you need that isn't included in Evince (or kPDF under
>>>KDE)? 
>>>      
>>>
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>I'm not the OP, but the one nice thing I find in Adobe Reader (that I don't 
>think exists, at least I've never found it, in xpdf, kpdf, or Ghostview) is 
>the ability to "select" text (their word, iirc) which means I can copy and 
>paste it to some other application.
>
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>
Randy, I've used the highlight/copy inherent to X with xpdf and lots of 
other apps ever since switching to Linux in '99.  You just hold the left 
mouse button down to highlight the material, then switch to where you 
want to insert the stuff and use the middle button to paste it there.  
For example, the following paragraph was copied from a .pdf file being 
viewed with xpdf.

Fast. Powerful. And Compatible. Windows 2000 can
complete most tasks faster than you can blink. So fast that you
might think that you made a mistake. But don't. Because
Windows 2000 isn't only fast -- it learns how you work so it
can complete your work for you even before you would have.
And Windows 2000 is completely compatible with your old
64-bit Windows 98 and 128-bit Windows 99 legacy
applications. It will even run them up to 200% faster!


JimW

PS - that's NOT an endorsement!