Lick the light switch

I’ve been looking forward to KDE 3.4 eagerly, and one of the reasons was KPDF.

The wait has been worth. I have installed the experimental packages for KDE 3.4 prepared by the pkg-kde Debian team and KPDF really rocks.

Its main features (at least, the ones that I was waiting for) are:

• Filter pages by text, show only the pages which contain a given text string.
• Search, look for a string in the PDF text
• Continuous mode, show the PDF file as continuous, not one page at a time.
• Region zoom, select a region and zoom into it.
• Select, select a region and copy it to the clipboard as text or as an image.
• Presentation mode, shows pages as slides with a nice progress indicator.
• Optionally, it can watch for changes in the viewed file and update the view accordingly.

And of course, kudos to the Debian KDE packaging team for their great effort in the last months and to Albert Astals Cid (main kpdf developer) for his great work.

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