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Editor-like Selection of Text
by Anon on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @04:49

One of the most interesting and useful features, to me, is the use of "editor-like" selection of text, as opposed to the old (and, to my mind, rather confusing and useless) "lasso" selection of text. I believe both Okular and Ligature incorporate this, which is great!

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Re: Editor-like Selection of Text
by superstoned on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @06:38

Those are cool indeed, just like the annotation support in okular (why didn't Troy mention this?). There where talks about basic pdf editing support like rotating, extracting or adding pages (like basic graphics viewers can rotate & have basic filters) but sadly they decided a viewer shouldn't edit the files, even tough Okular already DOES change them when annotating them.

Aside from this, I think the development of these apps goes in the right direction, and even tough some day one might be abandoned by it's users and developers, currently they both profit from the competition - as Adobe Acrobat and Evince aren't really competition (both okular and Ligature are lightyears ahead of both in most areas, evince can't do anything and Adobe is a usability- and performance nightmare).

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Re: Editor-like Selection of Text
by Myself on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @15:13

Oh, please, superstoned, you're always trolling around! the only thing okular supports and evince doesn't is the annotation support

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Re: Editor-like Selection of Text
by Pino Toscano on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @15:51

> the only thing okular supports and evince doesn't is the annotation support

"only"... our implementation is far from being finished but... do you have an idea of the complexity of the annotation stuff? It seems not,

Btw, and we support sounds, too ;)

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Re: Editor-like Selection of Text
by Enrico Ros on Thursday 15/Feb/2007, @00:22

Annotations are complex, but we have a Great Maintainer and some willing people!! Btw: annotations need to be reworked a bit :-)
Grande Pino ;-)

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Re: Editor-like Selection of Text
by yuanjiayj on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @16:10

"Editor-like Selection of Text",that's we really need.The "lasso" selection of text is so poor,especially for using ktranslator on a foreign pdf files.Adobe does it good.

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