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Bug 649601 - Selected Text disappears (overlapped by selection color) during multiple line selection
Selected Text disappears (overlapped by selection color) during multiple line...
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-05-06 20:13 UTC by Karan1337
Modified: 2013-10-30 13:09 UTC
See Also:
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Attachments
Screenshot demonstrating the invisible selected text. (120.00 KB, application/x-tar)
2011-05-06 20:13 UTC, Karan1337 		Details

Description Karan1337 2011-05-06 20:13:08 UTC 
Created attachment 187385 [details]
Screenshot demonstrating the invisible selected text.

After selecting a line of text in a pdf document by dragging, when the selection is extended to the lines above the initially selected line, the blue color (i.e. the default highlighting color) overlaps with the text, thereby sort of hiding the text beneath.

This only occurs in cases of multiple line selections just by moving the mouse upwards or downwards after selecting a line of text initially by clicking and dragging.

This behavior, however is rectified (selected text becomes visible) as soon as the pdf window loses focus.
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2011-05-07 08:35:44 UTC 
It's a known poppler bug that has been recently fixed. Feel free to reopen this bug if the problem is still present for you with Evince 3.0. Thanks for reporting.
Comment 2 José Aliste 2011-05-07 16:15:07 UTC 
Carlos, actually the bug is still present (although more difficult to reproduce)... I guess we are missing a queue_redraw somewhere...
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2013-06-14 06:54:56 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> Carlos, actually the bug is still present (although more difficult to
> reproduce)... I guess we are missing a queue_redraw somewhere...

How could you reproduce it? I have tried several times, different ways, no luck.
Comment 4 José Aliste 2013-10-30 13:09:21 UTC 
This is a poppler bug and it should be fixed. At least can't reproduce anymore in 3.10