Comment 21 for bug 958634

Ok, I just discovered how to copy text:

Ctrl+c OR Menu > Edit > Copy to Clipboard puts qpdview into text selection mode.

Then, while dragging the rectangle around the text you want to copy, the document blinks constantly during that drag.

After you finish the click-drag, and release your finger from the mouse-button, a context menu immediately appears, which features the option to "Copy text" to you clipboard.

This isn't the end of the world. It does work. I agree with others that I do like how other PDF viewers often allow you to select text the way everyone expects: by just clicking the left-mouse-button and dragging over the lines you want to select, and then right-click what you've highlighted and click copy (or ctrl-c to copy to clipboard).

However, that feature must be really tricky to do, because a lot of other PDF viewers are not perfect in this regard. Maybe that's the reason why the qpdfview developers thought this method, offered in qpdfview, would be more reliable. I'm still trying to decide. There are probably good reasons why they decided to do it this way.

I will say this. Even if you we stick with this method of copying over the normal way you'd expect, I think this particular feature is worthy of being an icon on the tool bar, and an option in qpdfview's universal context-menu (the menu that pops up anywhere you right-click.

This is a frequent task for me in PDFs, and took me a little bit to figure out the qpdfview way.