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Bug 490648 - Highlighted text in pdf does not appear in evince
Highlighted text in pdf does not appear in evince
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
0.8.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 497579 560580 599142 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-10-26 20:56 UTC by Nicolas Bock
Modified: 2009-10-23 12:42 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.17/2.18

Attachments
pdf document which demonstrates the problem with highlighted text (16.60 KB, application/pdf)
2007-10-26 20:57 UTC, Nicolas Bock 		Details

Description Nicolas Bock 2007-10-26 20:56:32 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
Portions of text in a PDF file which have been highlighted within Adobe Acrobat do not appear in evince. Instead of the highlighted text only the yellow highlight is visible. I have attached a sample pdf file generated with Adobe Acrobat 8.1.0.

Steps to reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
Comment 1 Nicolas Bock 2007-10-26 20:57:48 UTC 
Created attachment 97947 [details]
pdf document which demonstrates the problem with highlighted text
Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-10-28 09:38:29 UTC 
It's a bug in poppler cairo backend. I've just forwarded it to freedesktop bugzilla:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12979

Thanks for reporting.
Comment 3 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-11-19 10:25:56 UTC 
*** Bug 497579 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-07-22 07:48:54 UTC 
*** Bug 560580 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-10-23 12:42:52 UTC 
*** Bug 599142 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***