GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 403984
With Evince I can't copy text out from PDF documents created with cups-pdf
Last modified: 2007-09-03 12:32:11 UTC
That bug has been opened on https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/49498 "... The step to reproduce are: 1) install cups-pdf 2) open gnome-cups-manager and install the new printer, then make a test pressing the "Print a test page" button 3) open in Evince the just created PDF document and try to copy the text ====> you are able to do 4) open gedit, write something, and choose to create a PDF with cups-pdf 5) open in Evince the PDF document just created and try to copy the text ====> you aren't able to do ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/3026073/job_11-untitled_document.pdf a PDF document printed with cups-pdf This PDF document was written with gedit and printed with the cups-pdf virtual printer. When I open this PDF document with Evince, I'm not able to select text and copy out. ... Just to try, I have installed the Adobe Reader package. I have opened the PDF document printed with cups-pdf in Adobe Reader and here I can copy out the text. Therefore the problem is in the Evince document viewer."
Just to confirm that with the last Ubuntu Feisty the problem is still present.
Hi, this looks like a bug with the PDF backend. Could you please follow these instructions to help get this bug fixed. Thank You. http://live.gnome.org/Evince/PopplerBugs#poppler
I've sent it on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12268
(In reply to comment #3) > I've sent it on https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12268 > Thank you very much Sebastien.