[Okular-devel] [Bug 161324] recognise columns in the text of a page

[Peter Hedlund]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161324





--- Comment #34 from Peter Hedlund <peter peterandlinda com>  2010-09-17 00:49:11 ---
(In reply to comment #33)
> Let me tell you a secret: i don't need advanced text selection in okular, so
> obviously it's not my priority.
> 
> Now let me tell you another secret: Okular is free software! So all you that
> need advanced text selection are very welcome to improve okular text selection
> algorithm send a patch and then not only pdf text selection would be better but
> all the other formats too! For free!

Here is my secret: I have never needed anything in the program I maintain
(KWordQuiz), but I think it is fun when people show interest and tell we about
features they would like. If they are reasonable I see it as a challenge to my
limited self-taught programming skills to try to implement them. That why I use
free software.

I have actually looked in to pdf developement as I had some interest in page
manipulation features like adding and removing (pages) so I know it is no walk
in the park. Still it seems someone has already done a significant part of the
work in this (selection) case. Now is the time to step up to the final
challenge or is programming not fun anymore?

Well, back to Adobe Reader...

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