On Sunday 11 May 2008 22:43, David C. Rankin wrote:
William Hammond wrote:
Is there a preferred PDF Reader for OpenSuSE...?
I use both Adobe and KPFD. There are some things that work better in kpdf (text copying) and others that work better in adobe (navigation, zoom..). Both are excellent.
Adobe Reader does have a problem with copying text. I've found that if you just hold down CTRL+C until it auto-repeats for a little while, you'll get your selection copied reliably. A bigger problem for me is a lot of documents converted from PostScript using the ps2pdf tools. They often (perhaps always) have a bizarre character encoding that leaves them readable on the screen (or in print) but causes the copied text to be gibberish. Nowadays I've taken to downloading papers from, e.g., CiteSeer in PostScript form instead of PDF and then using Adobe Acrobat to convert them. (I picked up a copy of Acrobat at a reasonable price by watching the used software shelf at a local used bookstore like a vulture and swooping in when they had a Windows copy, which I run under VMware.)
-- David C. Rankin
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