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

[Todd Pierce]

Yes... Ghostscript.  Another brilliant idea.  It's starting to look
like if your pi chrome doesn't have PDF you're sol.

On 4/5/16, Scott Yates <Scott at yatesframe.com> wrote:
> Would GhostScript be able to help?  Seems like I remember there might be an
> option to render out just the text.
>
> On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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