qpdfview

Highlight and Copy a few lines of text

Asked by Mark

Hi,

I've been using 0.4.12.

When viewing a PDF, it is sometimes useful to be able to clipboard a portion of the text. I haven't been able to do this. Maybe I'm missing something, if not please consider for a future rev.

Thanks!!

Mark

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leoncc (leoncc) said : 		#1

Hi Mark,

Maybe if you want to select a small area of ​​text you can do the following

EDIT - COPY TO CLIPBOARD - AND WHEN THE PLUS SIGN APPEARS YOU CAN SELECT THE TEXT YOU WANT AND IN THE CONTEXT MENU SELECT YOUR PREFERRED OPTION.

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Mark (markd89) said : 		#2

Doh! I didn't see that.

Thank you!!

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iBart (bart-) said : 		#3

Is it also possible to highlight text with qpdfview?

It is a unintuitive and error-prone to select text with a rectangular box in my opinion.

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Adam Reichold (adamreichold) said : 		#4

Hello iBart,

it is possible to add highlight annotations, i.e. add a colored background that can also carry some comment using the annotation tool. If you just mean caret-based text selection, then this is not yet implemented. I'll link the related long-standing bug report to this question for more details...

Best regards, Adam.