GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 170341
searching for 'sufficient' does not find anything in attached pdf
Last modified: 2005-04-08 11:13:25 UTC
Version details: 0.1.8 open pdf and search for 'suf' you will find sufficient statistic on page 20. try searching for 'sufficient' or 'suff' then nothing gets found
Created attachment 38707 [details] the testcase
Strange, in a quick test that seems to be the only word in the document that does not find correctly. Everything else works just fine.
discussion in #evince gives the explanation: 'fi' is a ligature and thus searching for suf works but suff not anymore. there needs to be some clever trick (i.e. additional code) to also find words that contain ligatures
Sounds like a poppler issue, please follow these instructions: http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/helping.html#poppler
bug is now tracked in poppler bts, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2929