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Bug 345959 - Copy-and-paste results in a presentation form being copied
Copy-and-paste results in a presentation form being copied
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
0.5.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks: 370721
 
 
Reported: 2006-06-26 13:45 UTC by Carl Worth
Modified: 2007-09-03 10:37 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Carl Worth 2006-06-26 13:45:40 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I tried copying a code example from the PostScript Language Reference Manual into my editor, but the operation copied the presentation form of a ligature rather than the actual characters.

Steps to reproduce:
1. evince PLRM.pdf

2. navigate to the detailed description of the fill operator (page 603 of 912 or page "589" in the document)

3. select the three-line code example "gsave fill restore"

4. Copy in evince

5. Paste in gnome-terminal


Actual results:


Expected results:


Does this happen every time?


Other information:
The version of evince I used advertises itself as 0.5.2, but I'm pretty sure it was a build I made from cvs at some point.
Comment 1 Carl Worth 2006-06-26 13:48:12 UTC 
I don't know what happened to some of the sentences I had typed in the original bug report. But what happens is that the characters "fill" are pasted where the expected and desired result is for the charcters "fill" to be pasted.
Comment 2 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-08-05 00:14:59 UTC 
I think it's just a broken document problem. Can you check it with acrobat reader?
Comment 3 Carl Worth 2006-08-05 00:21:55 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I think it's just a broken document problem. Can you check it with acrobat
> reader?

I'm quite sure I originally checked this with acroread as well, and it worked fine. (Though I am a bit surprised to see I didn't mention that in the original bug report.)

Yes, I just checked again and acroread does copy-and-pase this text correctly from the same document.

-Carl
Comment 4 Nickolay V. Shmyrev 2006-08-05 00:32:02 UTC 
Ok, thanks a lot.
Comment 5 Ed Catmur 2006-11-06 23:54:26 UTC 
Isn't this the same as bug 341497?
Comment 6 Carl Worth 2006-11-07 00:20:54 UTC 
(In reply to comment #5)
> Isn't this the same as bug 341497?

Was the above comment made to an incorrect bug report? Or is there a typo in it? I cannot make any sense of the above:

"this" is a bug report concerning a ligature presentation form being pasted instead of the set of characters it represents.

bug 341497 is about crashes due to a window->group assertion failure.

I don't see any connection.

-Carl
Comment 7 Ed Catmur 2006-11-11 12:35:17 UTC 
Um, I meant bug 341947, obviously. Sorry.
Comment 8 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-09-03 10:37:04 UTC 
This problem seems to be fixed with poppler cvs head and evince svn trunk. Thanks for reporting.