Path: csiph.com!optima2.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!usenet.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail From: Grant Edwards Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Can I copy/paste Python code? Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <0f0c6018-50e7-4e95-a798-313d767ce177@googlegroups.com> <201507211725.t6LHPW1Y028074@fido.openend.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: 67-130-15-94.dia.static.qwest.net X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1437515270 15033 67.130.15.94 (21 Jul 2015 21:47:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 21:47:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: slrn/1.0.2 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:94320 On 2015-07-21, Emile van Sebille wrote: > On 7/21/2015 1:32 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> But, it apears foxit reader is Windows-only so it's a moot point for >> Linux/Unix/Mac users. > > I've been happy with https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince on linux. I'm trying to switch from acroread to evince, bit it has a few serious usability problems for me: 1) You can't copy/paste text from evince _at_all_. At least it works right most of the time with acroread. I really like being able paste example commands or bits of code or a sentance or three from PDF docs into a shell or editor window. Pasting tables is a bit more work, but it can at least be done with acroread. 2) You can't print the current view. I find that invaluable for printing portions of documents (e.g. I want just a section of a C size schematic printed on letter sized paper, or just one table table from a manual sized to fill a 8.5x11 page). If it did have 'print view' then lack of a marquee zoom would become another inconvenience. 3) There's no way to collapse-all in the TOC panel. When I open a 1200 page document with 30 sections and several hundred sections and subsections, I don't want to see all of them all of the time. Closing them one at a time by hand is pretty tedious. I find that about 20-30% of the time I start up evince, I end up closing it and re-opening the document in acroread. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... I have read the at INSTRUCTIONS ... gmail.com