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Bug 321910 - Can't search PS/DVI files
Can't search PS/DVI files
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other Linux
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2005-11-20 06:23 UTC by Ken Harris
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:07 UTC
See Also:
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Description Ken Harris 2005-11-20 06:23:29 UTC 
Version details: 0.4.0
Distribution/Version: Debian unstable

1. Open a Postscript (or DVI) file
2. Pull down the Edit menu
3. Try to select the Find menuitem
Result: Find is dimmed
Expected: Should be able to use Find
Comment 1 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2005-11-20 08:05:41 UTC 
This have sense although needs significant amount of work.
Comment 2 Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA 2012-09-20 11:55:15 UTC 
It has been seven years, and this is a serious usability bug that makes people look for alternatives.
Comment 3 Christopher M. Penalver 2014-12-11 17:07:33 UTC 
It is recommended limiting the scope of this report to just postscript, instead of both ps/dvi, it order to make it more approachable and manageable, and have the dvi portion split off into it's own report.

Regarding the postscript scope, downstream report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/159300

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

2) apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen is when one opens the attached file via evince, one may search via Ctrl+F:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/159300/+attachment/4278783/+files/diplom.ps

4) What happens instead is it is greyed out.

WORKAROUND: Convert the ps into pdf with ps2pdf, and then open the PDF with evince.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:07:22 UTC 
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