everyday multimedia not supported...

[Evan Monroig]

I don't know if this is the point that was being made, but to my
opinion xpdf (or gpdf) lack one very important feature: the ability to
select and extract text or images from a pdf file.

Evan

On Apr 7, 2005 1:49 PM, Karl <kaha at colug.org> wrote:
> I don't understand what's wrong with xpdf. Or what Adobe software has to
> do with Ubuntu. Not a troll, just wondering.
> 
> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 00:38 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
> > Rod MacPherson wrote:
> >
> > > >I'm thinking along
> > > >the lines of the script that downloads the MS truetype fonts and
> > > >installs them all in one step -- boom -- you have MS fonts available.
> > >
> > >
> > > You mean like
> > >
> > > sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts
> > >
> > > ??
> > >
> > Yes. If we had an apt-get that installed an adobe acrobat reader (that
> > worked -- acroread never did for me) I'd probably still be using Ubuntu.
> >
> > Ed
> >
> >
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