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McLightning 2009-07-03 14:05
Text Selection On Pdf Books??
 
hi everybody
nowadays im trying to learn application developing on n810
i download a pdf book from pygtk website which contains code snippets
but how can i copy these code snippets from the pdf.
i tried with evince and pdf reader but :(

is it possible to copy text from pdf on maemo???

GeraldKo 2009-07-03 18:07
Re: Text Selection On Pdf Books??
 
I'd read this brief thread.

timsamoff 2009-07-03 18:42
Re: Text Selection On Pdf Books??
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by McLightning (Post 301792)
hi everybody
nowadays im trying to learn application developing on n810
i download a pdf book from pygtk website which contains code snippets
but how can i copy these code snippets from the pdf.
i tried with evince and pdf reader but :(

is it possible to copy text from pdf on maemo???
Doesn't the PDF viewer allow you to double-tap and drag to select text?

Tim

McLightning 2009-07-04 09:08
Re: Text Selection On Pdf Books??
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by timsamoff (Post 301850)
Doesn't the PDF viewer allow you to double-tap and drag to select text?

Tim
nope it doesnt :(

codeMonkey 2009-07-04 09:11
Re: Text Selection On Pdf Books??
 
I think you can also use ePDF that Qwerty ported to do it.

Evince also has the capability, but the mouse usage has been restricted to use for panning in the maemo port, so it's not enabled on our tablets.


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