[Cialug] RPi LibreOffice PDF copy/paste Question (rant)

[Scott Yates]

Would GhostScript be able to help?  Seems like I remember there might be an
option to render out just the text.

On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com> wrote:

> Silly me.  The browser doesn't have the PDF plugin, but that's an
> excellent idea I should have thought of.  I'll just sneaker-net him a
> new browser or plugin for chrome.  Still open to other ideas though.
>
> On 4/5/16, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:
> > I've had good luck using evince, but that's Gnome based so that might not
> > be worth installing on a RPi.  Have you tried the JavaScript-based PDF
> > viewers in FireFox or Chrome?  I run all of my RPIs headless (except for
> > the one running RetroPie) so I don't have much experience with GUI
> options
> > on Chrome.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 4:16 PM, Todd Pierce <toddcpierce at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Crew,
> >>
> >> So, very kind that xPDF is included with the RPi installation, but it is
> >> just a picture viewer.  You can't copy and paste text from it, which
> >> violates the whole point of PDFs.
> >>
> >> I can forgive that.  I Install LibreOffice.
> >>
> >> LibreOffice turns PDFs into... something unreadable to mankind.  All
> >> advice
> >> on Internet seems to champion the ability of LO Draw to open PDFs...
> >> which
> >> is just opening a picture again (and doesn't work anyway).
> >>
> >> I'm dreadfully sorry to bother you Iowans with this stuff, but sometimes
> >> the rest of the planet is just not on task (which would include Oklahoma
> >> this time... I left New Mexico)..
> >>
> >> Just to keep things interesting, the RPi is not online (so not even a
> >> system clock!) so if there is a solution to being able to copy and paste
> >> text from a PDF I would hope it's sneaker-nettable.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >>
> >> -Todd
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