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Bug 321177 - Searching finds the wrong characters
Searching finds the wrong characters
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 166285
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-10 17:37 UTC by Federico Mena Quintero
Modified: 2005-11-10 20:55 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Penguin_desglosado.pdf (16.16 KB, application/pdf)
2005-11-10 17:38 UTC, Federico Mena Quintero 		Details
evince-search.png (119.82 KB, image/png)
2005-11-10 17:38 UTC, Federico Mena Quintero 		Details

Description Federico Mena Quintero 2005-11-10 17:37:25 UTC 
I loaded the attached PDF and hit C-f to find something.

Note how in the attached screenshot, I search for "o" and Evince highlights
something that is definitely not an "o" :)

I have Evince 0.4.0.
Comment 1 Federico Mena Quintero 2005-11-10 17:38:06 UTC 
Created attachment 54596 [details]
Penguin_desglosado.pdf
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2005-11-10 17:38:48 UTC 
Created attachment 54597 [details]
evince-search.png

Screenshot showing the problem.  I search for "o" but Evince highlights
something else.
Comment 3 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-11-10 19:59:08 UTC 
Even acroread 7.0 finds letters on wrong places in that document with format
PDF-1.5 and sometimes crashes :( So I suspect it's just broken a bit. Probably
NOTABUG then.

Was it generated or downloaded?
Comment 4 Federico Mena Quintero 2005-11-10 20:17:28 UTC 
It got it from a computer vendor; I don't know how they generated it.  If you
run "strings" on the file, it shows that Ghostscript was somehow involved.

I wouldn't put this as NOTABUG... I have no idea of how PDF stores character or
glyph information, but this is a horrible bug :)

I'd rather have it detect the situation and say "I can't search in this PDF, sorry".
Comment 5 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-11-10 20:55:38 UTC 
Ok, it's a duplicate then. I'll update the first bug for that test case.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 166285 ***