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Bug 168664 - possibility to really select text instead of select rectangles
possibility to really select text instead of select rectangles
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 165155
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-02-27 15:37 UTC by Christian Krause
Modified: 2005-03-05 07:56 UTC
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Description Christian Krause 2005-02-27 15:37:36 UTC 
One of the features I really miss from opensource pdf viewers:
Don't select text as simple reactangles, but really select text like in "normal"
word processors or graphical text editors: Start at a position in a line ans
move the mouse down. All text between the start position and the mouse pointer
is "line-wise" selected. Acroread does it in this way.

Only in this way you can select e.g. sentences which are starting in the middle
of a line or paragraphs which wrap over a page boundary.
Comment 1 Bryan W Clark 2005-03-04 22:07:00 UTC 
Hi, in the future if you could leave your own bugs as UNCONFIRMED and wait for
someone else to confirm them.  It allows me to keep up on the new stuff.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 165155 ***
Comment 2 Christian Krause 2005-03-05 07:56:19 UTC 
Bryan,

Just for completness:
If you have a look at the bug activity of this bug, you will see, that I did not
confirm my own bug. It was somebody else.

regards,
Christian