Re: PDF Save A Copy

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 12:06:59 +0000
Gustav van der Merwe <gvdm paradise net nz> wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 00:10 +0100, Esben Stien wrote:
> > It would be nice if, when I click on a PDF on the web and it opens in
> > evince, there is a button called "Save A Copy", which existed
> > before. I usually don't want to download and have a copy of every PDF
> > I look at, which is the current policy.
> 
> You are aware that to view a PDF you have to download it? I think the
> stance was, if we have to download a copy of the PDF we might as well
> put it somewhere the user can discover it (defaults to desktop I think)
> rather than stashed away in /tmp

This is actually xpdf behaviour... It took a while to know that xpdf
already saved a copy in /tmp. Doing a right-click, then Save as..., using
the same name (no warning), this actually zeroed the file, trying to copy
over itself.

John