[Cialug] RPi LibreOffice PDF copy/paste Question (rant)

Tue Apr 5 16:26:12 CDT 2016

xpdf is Motif-based, so it should have X11-style select-to-copy.

But xpdf/poppler defaults to obeying the metadata in the PDF,
and you have to patch and recompile to get always-works copy from PDF,
at least you aren't using Adobe Reader...

	Jonathan Kollasch

On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 04:16:30PM -0500, Todd Pierce wrote:
> Crew,
> 
> So, very kind that xPDF is included with the RPi installation, but it is
> just a picture viewer.  You can't copy and paste text from it, which
> violates the whole point of PDFs.
> 
> I can forgive that.  I Install LibreOffice.
> 
> LibreOffice turns PDFs into... something unreadable to mankind.  All advice
> on Internet seems to champion the ability of LO Draw to open PDFs... which
> is just opening a picture again (and doesn't work anyway).
> 
> I'm dreadfully sorry to bother you Iowans with this stuff, but sometimes
> the rest of the planet is just not on task (which would include Oklahoma
> this time... I left New Mexico)..
> 
> Just to keep things interesting, the RPi is not online (so not even a
> system clock!) so if there is a solution to being able to copy and paste
> text from a PDF I would hope it's sneaker-nettable.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> -Todd
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