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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

Posted Nov 30, 2004 19:32 UTC (Tue) by tjc (subscriber, #137)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

> On the other hand, gpdf lacks xpdf's scrollwheel support. It does not
> provide the "find in text" and "cut and paste" capabilities, which,
> it seems, are unique to xpdf. It is not clear why those features are
> missing; one might guess that gpdf forked the xpdf code base before
> they were added.

Another possibility is that they were removed because someone in the GNOME project thought they might confuse novice users.

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The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

Posted Dec 2, 2004 5:54 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

I don't think so. Until not too terribly long ago, one of the missing features was "Print". Yes, I 'm serious. I suspect the project could use a few more developers.

BTW, I really like this series of articles.