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Bug 346333 - Find misses certain words in PDF documents
Find misses certain words in PDF documents
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.5.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-07-01 06:12 UTC by Johan Brannlund
Modified: 2006-08-05 00:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Johan Brannlund 2006-07-01 06:12:02 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
The Find facility misses certain words in PDF documents. My guess is that this is related to ligatures.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the LaTeX PDF document http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0512076
2. Search for the string "indefinite" on the first page.
3. 


Actual results:
Evince says "0 found on this page"

Expected results:
That Evince actually finds the string "indefinite", which occurs several times on the first page.


Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
As I stated above, I'm guessing that the bug is related to the "f-i" ligature in "indefinite". Evince correctly finds the substring "inde", but not "indef" or "indefi".
Comment 1 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-08-04 23:54:06 UTC 
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
Comment 2 Johan Brannlund 2006-08-05 00:10:18 UTC 
Done, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7772
Comment 3 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-08-05 00:27:32 UTC 
Thanks a lot and sorry for delay.