Can I copy/paste Python code?
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Tue Jul 21 18:36:43 EDT 2015
On 07/21/2015 03:47 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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.
Sounds like Evince has really gone down hill since I last used Gnome. I
use Atril on Mate desktop and it works as well as Evince ever used to
for me, which is expected seeing as it was forked from Gnome 2 sources.
I have never had any problems cutting and pasting text. And you can
definitely close the TOC panel.
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see that Evince has lost capabilities.
Seems to be the way Gnome apps are going these days.
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