GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 374302
when selecting text, the text sometimes disappears
Last modified: 2007-05-09 22:52:14 UTC
sometimes when selection text in evince i see the text disappear under the selection, as shown in the pictures attached. The pdf itself is included as an attachment. Also, if i alt-tab to another window and then back to evince with the text selected, the text when going back to the evince is drawn.
Created attachment 76438 [details] Png showing the first page of the pdf file without selecting anything
Created attachment 76439 [details] Png showing the first page of the pdf file with some text selected
Created attachment 76440 [details] pdf in which the bug happends
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actually if you take a look at the original bug it does not seems with same as in that bug only non ISO-8859-1 dissapear, in my case ISO-8859-1 are dissapearing also.
oh, sorry Diego, I was wrong, it looked like #315272 which is an old well know bug. Reopening ...
Ubuntu bug similar to the bug described: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/88893 "Binary package hint: evince Reading the PDF version of the italian Lyx tutorial selecting text makes the latter "covered" by the selector band (like if it is opaque). Tried with other pdf (like the Samba Howto or the MySQL manual) it doesn't happen. Follows a screenshot of the problem... http://librarian.launchpad.net/6581710/evince_bug.png A screenshot of Evince showing the problem ... http://librarian.launchpad.net/6581759/it_Tutorial.pdf Lyx italian tutorial (pdf version) Evince is 0.7.2, running on Feisty with today updates. Follows the pdf file. Note: the PDF file is generated from the .lyx version using Lyx 1.5.0beta (compiled from source)."
In 0.8.1 (ubuntu feisty) only accented characters (á, é, í, ó, ú, and ñ too) desappear.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 338942 ***