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Bug 315962 - Text selection causes characters to disappear
Text selection causes characters to disappear
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 315272
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.4.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-09-11 05:36 UTC by Brent Smith (smitten)
Modified: 2005-09-11 11:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-09-11 05:36:17 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When selection text in some PDF files, the selection will be missing
some of the characters from the selected text.

Steps to reproduce:
1. download the attachment
2 [details]. try to select text from the pdf file
3. 


Actual results:
text is selected, but certain characters within the text are not displayed.

Expected results:
All selected characters are displayed.

Does this happen every time?
yes.

Other information:
Comment 1 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-09-11 05:36:57 UTC 
screenshot of the issue is available here:

http://www.nextreality.net/~smitten/missing-characters.png
Comment 2 Brent Smith (smitten) 2005-09-11 05:40:12 UTC 
This actually might be my fault.  I created the PDF using scribus and embedded
the font which I borrowed from a friend's mac.  The font was causing an "invalid
encoding" error in Acrobat, so I fired up fontforge and changed the encoding from
Unicode/BMP to Unicode/Full.  Don't know why this would cause this bug, but I
thought it might be relevant.
Comment 3 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-09-11 11:44:57 UTC 
Thanks for reporting this, I think it's known problem. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315272 ***