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

[Todd Pierce]

Silly me.  The browser doesn't have the PDF plugin, but that's an
excellent idea I should have thought of.  I'll just sneaker-net him a
new browser or plugin for chrome.  Still open to other ideas though.

On 4/5/16, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> 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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