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  Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-27 19:00 +0100
    Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-02-27 20:40 +0100
      Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-27 22:00 +0100
        Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 00:10 +0100
          Re: Atril documentation problems Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de> - 2019-02-28 09:00 +0100
    Re: Atril documentation problems "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-27 22:00 +0100
      Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-28 13:30 +0100
        Re: Atril documentation problems "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-28 13:50 +0100
          Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-28 18:00 +0100
            Re: Atril documentation problems "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2019-02-28 20:00 +0100
            Re: Atril documentation problems Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-03 10:10 +0100
              Re: Atril documentation problems Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-03-03 10:20 +0100
                Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-03-03 14:40 +0100
                  Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-03-03 15:10 +0100
        Re: Atril documentation problems Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-28 14:50 +0100
    Re: Atril documentation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 10:20 +0100
      Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-28 13:50 +0100
        Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-28 16:30 +0100
          Re: Atril documentation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 17:00 +0100
            Re: Atril documentation problems Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-28 17:50 +0100
              Re: Atril documentation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 18:20 +0100
                Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 21:30 +0100
                  Re: Atril documentation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 22:20 +0100
                    Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 23:10 +0100
          Re: Atril documentation problems Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-28 17:40 +0100
            Re: Atril documentation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 18:30 +0100
              Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 18:40 +0100
                Re: Atril documentation problems Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-02-28 20:00 +0100
                  Re: Atril documentation problems Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 20:50 +0100
                    Re: Atril documentation problems David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-28 22:40 +0100

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#205787 — Atril documentation problems

I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril.
I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results.

I have two problems using the "find" command.

1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page green 
foreground color. Is there any way to chose a more visible indicator?

2. The find searches from the _beginning_ of the document.
    Is there any way to force it to begin searches at a specific page?

Is there any document that would have answered these questions.

Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of 
highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any 
page of the document?

TIA

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#205788

On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page
> of the document?

Would you care to specify which PDF reader you have in mind?

-- 
Brian.

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#205790

On 02/27/2019 01:31 PM, Brian wrote:
> On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page
>> of the document?
> 
> Would you care to specify which PDF reader you have in mind?
> 

Read the question. I'm looking for one!

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#205792

On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 14:50:45 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 02/27/2019 01:31 PM, Brian wrote:
> > On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 
> > > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
> > > highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any page
> > > of the document?
> > 
> > Would you care to specify which PDF reader you have in mind?
> > 
> 
> Read the question. I'm looking for one!

Still capable of pillocky behaviour, it seems.

mupdf and xpdf do what you want.

-- 
Brian.

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#205798

Hi,

> > On 02/27/2019 01:31 PM, Brian wrote:
> > > On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
> > > > highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search
> > > > on any page of the document?

not sure if this will fit your needs, but qpdfview lets you freely choose
the highlightcolor and the search will start at the currently active page.

Regards

Michael

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Dismissed.  That's a Star Fleet expression for, "Get out."
		-- Capt. Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, "The Cloud"

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#205791

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On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril.
> I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results.
>
> I have two problems using the "find" command.
>
> 1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page green
> foreground color. Is there any way to chose a more visible indicator?
>
> 2. The find searches from the _beginning_ of the document.
>    Is there any way to force it to begin searches at a specific page?
>
> Is there any document that would have answered these questions.
>
> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any
> page of the document?
>
> TIA
>
>
I like to use "evince".

-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ 
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org
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#205814

On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril.
>> I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results.
>>
>> I have two problems using the "find" command.
>>
>> 1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page green 
>> foreground color. Is there any way to chose a more visible indicator?
>>
>> 2. The find searches from the _beginning_ of the document.
>>    Is there any way to force it to begin searches at a specific page?
>>
>> Is there any document that would have answered these questions.
>>
>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of 
>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any 
>> page of the document?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
> I like to use "evince".

It has the same pale green highlight.
Instead of starting search on a specific page, it brings up a clickable 
list of all pages on which a match occurs. That satisfies the "end goal" 
and may have advantages.

Thank you.

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#205816

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On 28.02.2019 17:25, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>> On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril.
>>> I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results.
>>>
>>> I have two problems using the "find" command.
>>>
>>> 1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page green
>>> foreground color. Is there any way to chose a more visible indicator?
>>>
>>> 2. The find searches from the _beginning_ of the document.
>>>    Is there any way to force it to begin searches at a specific page?
>>>
>>> Is there any document that would have answered these questions.
>>>
>>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
>>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on
>>> any page of the document?
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>>
>> I like to use "evince".
>
> It has the same pale green highlight.
This setting is coming from your desktop environment theme. I use
custom-colored theme called "Adapta-Nokto-Eta" (package is called
"adapta-gtk-theme") and it makes color for search highlights in evince
look gray-blue-ish, which accomplishes the goals for me to be
non-distracting and serve its purpose as highlight.

> Instead of starting search on a specific page, it brings up a
> clickable list of all pages on which a match occurs. That satisfies
> the "end goal" and may have advantages.
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>
>


-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ 
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ 

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#205827

On 02/28/2019 06:48 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> On 28.02.2019 17:25, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>>> On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>> I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril.
>>>> I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results.
>>>>
>>>> I have two problems using the "find" command.
>>>>
>>>> 1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page green 
>>>> foreground color. Is there any way to chose a more visible indicator?
>>>>
>>>> 2. The find searches from the _beginning_ of the document.
>>>>    Is there any way to force it to begin searches at a specific page?
>>>>
>>>> Is there any document that would have answered these questions.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of 
>>>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on 
>>>> any page of the document?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I like to use "evince".
>>
>> It has the same pale green highlight.
> This setting is coming from your desktop environment theme. I use 
> custom-colored theme called "Adapta-Nokto-Eta" (package is called 
> "adapta-gtk-theme") and it makes color for search highlights in evince 
> look gray-blue-ish, which accomplishes the goals for me to be 
> non-distracting and serve its purpose as highlight.

I don't know how to approach my problem.

My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm.

I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success
[my sources.list contains
  "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib"]

Suggestions?

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#205835

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On 28.02.2019 21:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/28/2019 06:48 AM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>> On 28.02.2019 17:25, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2019 02:51 PM, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
>>>> On 27.02.2019 22:56, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>>> I've tried the Atril man page and F1 from inside Atril.
>>>>> I've tried a DuckDuckGo search with unsatisfactory results.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have two problems using the "find" command.
>>>>>
>>>>> 1. When the keyword is found, it is highlighted(sic) in a page
>>>>> green foreground color. Is there any way to chose a more visible
>>>>> indicator?
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. The find searches from the _beginning_ of the document.
>>>>>    Is there any way to force it to begin searches at a specific page?
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there any document that would have answered these questions.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
>>>>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on
>>>>> any page of the document?
>>>>>
>>>>> TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> I like to use "evince".
>>>
>>> It has the same pale green highlight.
>> This setting is coming from your desktop environment theme. I use
>> custom-colored theme called "Adapta-Nokto-Eta" (package is called
>> "adapta-gtk-theme") and it makes color for search highlights in
>> evince look gray-blue-ish, which accomplishes the goals for me to be
>> non-distracting and serve its purpose as highlight.
>
> I don't know how to approach my problem.
>
> My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm.
>
> I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success
> [my sources.list contains
>  "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib"]
>
> Suggestions?
>
>
>
>
If I wanted to know if there is a package available in Debian repos,
where it is and what version, I'd use, probably the fastest way, and typed:
    $ rmadison adapta-gtk-theme

If I wanted to know from what package that strange utility or file comes
from, I'd typed:
    $ apt-file find rmadison

If you will use adapta-gtk-theme, I suggest you to create a simple
backport [1] of it with colors you like. This is what I did, long before
this package has arrived to official Debian repos, because I dislike
default colors and it's easy to change them.
You can find a sneak-peek of features and default colors on github. [2]

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/SimpleBackportCreation
[2] https://github.com/adapta-project/adapta-gtk-theme

-- 
With kindest regards, Alexander.

⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ 
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ 

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#205952

On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>
> I don't know how to approach my problem.
>
> My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm.
>
> I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success
> [my sources.list contains
>   "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib"]
>
> Suggestions?
>
>

This is unrelated to your "visible" highlighting conundrum but while
searching an answer for Bailey, which I withheld due to his lousy
attitude, I stumbled upon 'aptly', a tool for managing Debian package
repositories, which I believe you expressed an interest in doing some
moons ago.

I don't recall this soft being mentioned during that or those threads;
maybe it was, though, and you've already heard of it.

Out.

-- 
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe,
which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain
and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance--
we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#205954

On 2019-03-03, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know how to approach my problem.
>>
>> My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm.
>>
>> I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success
>> [my sources.list contains
>>   "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib"]
>>
>> Suggestions?
>>
>>
>
> This is unrelated to your "visible" highlighting conundrum but while
> searching an answer for Bailey, which I withheld due to his lousy
> attitude, I stumbled upon 'aptly', a tool for managing Debian package
> repositories, which I believe you expressed an interest in doing some
> moons ago.
>
> I don't recall this soft being mentioned during that or those threads;
> maybe it was, though, and you've already heard of it.
>
> Out.
>

Forgot the link:

https://www.aptly.info/doc/overview/

-- 
“Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe,
which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain
and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched--love for instance--
we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.” - Virginia Woolf, The Waves

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#205958

On 03/03/2019 03:18 AM, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-03-03, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
>> On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't know how to approach my problem.
>>>
>>> My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm.
>>>
>>> I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success
>>> [my sources.list contains
>>>    "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib"]
>>>
>>> Suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>
>> This is unrelated to your "visible" highlighting conundrum but while
>> searching an answer for Bailey, which I withheld due to his lousy
>> attitude, I stumbled upon 'aptly', a tool for managing Debian package
>> repositories, which I believe you expressed an interest in doing some
>> moons ago.
>>
>> I don't recall this soft being mentioned during that or those threads;
>> maybe it was, though, and you've already heard of it.
>>
>> Out.
>>
> 
> Forgot the link:
> 
> https://www.aptly.info/doc/overview/
> 

*THANK YOU*
It may not relate to diagnosing my highlighting problem.

HOWEVER, if I had it installed, it would have made it reasonable to 
experiment with Alexander's suggested workaround [adapta-gtk-theme from 
backports].

I've been interested in local repositories since Jessie. A brief browse 
of aptly links suggests it explicitly addresses some problems that 
discouraged me from proceeding.

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#205959

On Sun 03 Mar 2019 at 07:39:16 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote:

> On 03/03/2019 03:18 AM, Curt wrote:
> > On 2019-03-03, Curt <curty@free.fr> wrote:
> > > On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I don't know how to approach my problem.
> > > > 
> > > > My desktop is MATE. I believe the display manager is lightdm.
> > > > 
> > > > I used Synaptic to look for "adapta-gtk-theme" without success
> > > > [my sources.list contains
> > > >    "deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib"]
> > > > 
> > > > Suggestions?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > This is unrelated to your "visible" highlighting conundrum but while
> > > searching an answer for Bailey, which I withheld due to his lousy
> > > attitude, I stumbled upon 'aptly', a tool for managing Debian package
> > > repositories, which I believe you expressed an interest in doing some
> > > moons ago.
> > > 
> > > I don't recall this soft being mentioned during that or those threads;
> > > maybe it was, though, and you've already heard of it.
> > > 
> > > Out.
> > > 
> > 
> > Forgot the link:
> > 
> > https://www.aptly.info/doc/overview/
> > 
> 
> *THANK YOU*
> It may not relate to diagnosing my highlighting problem.

The cause of your issue has been diagnosed and a solution proposed and
tested.

> HOWEVER, if I had it installed, it would have made it reasonable to
> experiment with Alexander's suggested workaround [adapta-gtk-theme from
> backports].

You haven't installed from backports yet? Tut,tut.

-- 
Brian.

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#205818

On 2019-02-28, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
>>>
>> I like to use "evince".
>
> It has the same pale green highlight.
> Instead of starting search on a specific page, it brings up a clickable 
> list of all pages on which a match occurs. That satisfies the "end goal" 
> and may have advantages.
>
> Thank you.

Here the "visible" highlight is a lovely, cerulean blue.

As someone has already noted, I believe you're attributing to the pdf
software what is ascribable to your desktop environment, theme, or
whatever.

I'm just chiming in to point out that if you click the "Annotate the
document" icon that juxtaposes the search icon in Evince, two
additional icons will appear.  The one on the right--"Add highlight
annotation"---allows you to highlight text in a variety of colors of
your own choosing.

Just saying. Might prove useful down the road or something. Or not.

-- 
When you have fever you are heavy and light, you are small and swollen, you
climb endlessly a ladder which turns like a wheel. 
Jean Rhys, Voyage in the Dark

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#205805

On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:

> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any
> page of the document?

Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the
previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on
when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and
so on.

The jessie version was broken wrt some keystrokes but all is well
in stretch. I don't think it handles passwords, nor certain font
configurations like Chase credit card statements.

Cheers,
David.

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#205815

On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote:
> On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> 
>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any
>> page of the document?
> 
> Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the
> previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on
> when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and
> so on.
> 
> The jessie version was broken wrt some keystrokes but all is well
> in stretch. I don't think it handles passwords, nor certain font
> configurations like Chase credit card statements.

Synaptic does not give a valid URL for "Visit Homepage".
I found [https://www.xpdfreader.com/] which I assume is correct.
It is apparently more powerful than I was thinking of.
I'll explore it later.
Thanks.

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#205822

On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote:
>> On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
>>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any
>>> page of the document?
>>
>> Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the
>> previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on
>> when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and
>> so on.
>>
>> The jessie version was broken wrt some keystrokes but all is well
>> in stretch. I don't think it handles passwords, nor certain font
>> configurations like Chase credit card statements.
> 
> Synaptic does not give a valid URL for "Visit Homepage".
> I found [https://www.xpdfreader.com/] which I assume is correct.
> It is apparently more powerful than I was thinking of.
> I'll explore it later.
> Thanks.
> 

Had problem installing via Synaptic - reported not able to find correct 
version of some cups related files. As I don't have a printer on the 
machine, I continued.

Although the man page states "You can also start xpdf without opening 
any files", there is not a *convenient* way to select a file to open 
[requires opening a sequence of multiple dialogs].

Highlighting search string works fine. Menus and controls are much too 
small to be acceptable.

As Curt and Alexander agree that my highlight problem with Evince is 
desktop &/or theme related, I will pursue that.

Thanks.

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#205824

On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:20:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > > On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
> > > > highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any
> > > > page of the document?
> > > 
> > > Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the
> > > previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on
> > > when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and
> > > so on.

> Although the man page states "You can also start xpdf without opening
> any files", there is not a *convenient* way to select a file to open
> [requires opening a sequence of multiple dialogs].

Right click and Open lies under the cursor. Standard dialogue box.
I'm not sure where your "multiple dialogs" come from; perhaps your
desktop is doing something.

I'll admit that I had to think about how to open a new file from
within xpdf. I've been using it from mc as my default viewer, and from
the commandline, since 1997 and haven't really found many occasions
to do that.

Cheers,
David.

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#205826

On 02/28/2019 09:51 AM, David Wright wrote:
> On Thu 28 Feb 2019 at 09:20:04 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
>> On 02/28/2019 06:47 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2019 03:26 PM, David Wright wrote:
>>>> On Wed 27 Feb 2019 at 11:56:57 (-0600), Richard Owlett wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Is there a Debian package to read a PDF using a visible means of
>>>>> highlighting the target text and capable of starting the search on any
>>>>> page of the document?
>>>>
>>>> Xpdf does that. Black on white. It starts each search from the
>>>> previous one. It restarts a search at the top of the page you're on
>>>> when you do things like select text, change the zoom factor, and
>>>> so on.
> 
>> Although the man page states "You can also start xpdf without opening
>> any files", there is not a *convenient* way to select a file to open
>> [requires opening a sequence of multiple dialogs].
> 
> Right click and Open lies under the cursor. Standard dialogue box.
> I'm not sure where your "multiple dialogs" come from; perhaps your
> desktop is doing something.

I have gotten use to clicking on a directory to go down to next level.
But xpdf expects you to click "Open" button to go down a level followed 
by choosing "Open" again in the dialogue box.

You can skip that by entering the complete path in the "Selection" box.
It fundamentally has a command line orientation with GUI as an extra.
I used to be command-line oriented (started with CPM-80) but spent to 
many decades with Windows(tm).

> 
> I'll admit that I had to think about how to open a new file from
> within xpdf. I've been using it from mc as my default viewer, and from
> the commandline, since 1997 and haven't really found many occasions
> to do that.
> 
> Cheers,
> David.
> 
> 
> 

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