bf, I agree with you. In Adobe Acrobat reader it is possible, and it would be very useful to add support for this tool in Evince. I often need to get copies of limited areas of the documents that that I'm working with, but the only way to do it when you are using Evince is by obtaining a full screenshot, and editing it with an image editor (Pinta or another). I'm not sure, but it seems to be that Okular supports this feature. In reply to Marcel, you are right. With Evince you can select an image, copy it and then paste in the workspace of another application, but it isn't the same that being able to select and copy any area that you need.
I hope that you can bring this tool to Evince. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/796188 Title: Feature Request: Tool: Save screenshot of area to clipboard Status in Evince document viewer: New Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: evince I'm curious whether it's possible to add a feature to evince which allows the user the following: 1. select the screenshot tool 2. select a specific area of the document with your mouse (a rectangle: press to start selection and release mouse button when finished) 3. the selected area will be saved to the clipboard as an image which can be pasted e.g. in Openoffice.org Writer or comparable office software I'm inquiring about this feature because I know it from Acrobat Reader and it's the last feature that's keeping me from uninstalling Acrobat. I know a lot of people at university who use this tool on a regular basis when creating summaries of lectures. It's a very pleasant way to copy & paste important parts of PDF documents, mainly diagrams and illustrations and imo this won't be too much of a hassle to implement. I attached a screenshot of the desired functionality as observed while using Acrobat Reader. I hope this clears it up a bit. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/796188/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
