On Thu, Feb 28, 2002 at 10:24:15AM +1300, Corrin Lakeland wrote: > > > hmm, why not do what you can to avoid using an application from a house > > > that, singlehandedly, led to the wholly unecessary incarceration of a > > > proven advocate of free access to information. > > Fair point, but acrobat supports searching and xpdf doesn't. > > Much as I disapprove of adobe, I could not swap from acrobat to xpdf. I have > hundreds of PDFs and the ability of htdig to index them, and acroread to > search for text in them is an essential feature. > > If xpdf supported text search and provided whatever functionality htdig needs > to perform its indexing then I would very happily dump acroread.
It appears to support text searches in the latest version. I'd still like a bookmarks tree myself (big documents are much easier to navigate). -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
