GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 315962
Text selection causes characters to disappear
Last modified: 2005-09-11 11:44:57 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:
screenshot of the issue is available here: http://www.nextreality.net/~smitten/missing-characters.png
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.
Thanks for reporting this, I think it's known problem. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 315272 ***