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

[Jeffrey Ollie]

I've had good luck using evince, but that's Gnome based so that might not
be worth installing on a RPi.  Have you tried the JavaScript-based PDF
viewers in FireFox or Chrome?  I run all of my RPIs headless (except for
the one running RetroPie) so I don't have much experience with GUI options
on Chrome.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> 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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Jeff Ollie