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Bug 588476 - Cut & paste from PDF is un-ergonomic
Cut & paste from PDF is un-ergonomic
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 325189
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.27.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-07-13 18:46 UTC by Nicolas Mailhot
Modified: 2009-08-08 14:56 UTC
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Description Nicolas Mailhot 2009-07-13 18:46:40 UTC 
It's a PITA to extract text from a multicolumn PDF such as

http://arkandis.tuxfamily.org/docs/Accanthis-Cat.pdf

evince insists on selecting text over the two columns instead of doing it column by column, so they are interlaced in the selection

evince-0:2.27.3-1.fc12.x86_64
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-08-08 14:56:20 UTC 
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 325189 ***