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Bug 560580 - PDF Highlighting Displays Inaccurately
PDF Highlighting Displays Inaccurately
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 490648
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
2.24.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 495664 588835 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2008-11-13 01:05 UTC by Matthew Buscemi
Modified: 2009-07-22 07:48 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.23/2.24


Description Matthew Buscemi 2008-11-13 01:05:09 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
I got a pdf file in my email from a friend.  Before sending it, he had highlighted several portions of the text in the PDF with Adobe Acrobat Pro that he wanted to draw to my attention.  Evince displays the highlighting, but over the text rather than under it.  The result is that only the highlighting color can be seen and not the text underneath.  If I attempt to select the highlighted text, it becomes visible, but only as long as that portion of text remains selected.  If I deselect the text, the words become hidden behind the highlighting again.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Acquire a PDF file that had highlighting added with Adobe Acrobat Pro.
2. Open the PDF file in Evince.


Actual results:
I described the results above already.

Expected results:
I would expect the results to be the same as the situation I described above.

Does this happen every time?
I only have one file.  But, every time I open it, the same thing happens.

Other information:
If you would like a copy of this file, I would have no problem sending it to you.  It does not contain any sensitive information.  My email address is ikimashoz@gmail.com.
Comment 1 Matthew Buscemi 2008-11-13 01:11:33 UTC 
I was also thinking, it would be great if there were some kind of tool that could add highlighting to PDF text in Evince.  I'm in academia, and since most of the files I use for work are distributed using PDF, having the highlight function would come in very handy.
Comment 2 Nelson Benitez 2008-11-13 15:16:26 UTC 
*** Bug 495664 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 giancaldo 2009-07-22 00:43:54 UTC 
I can confirm this bug.
It showed up for me on the file "Alex Benzer - The Tao Of S*****l Dating For Men.pdf" from http://www.mininova.org/tor/2779391

It seems to work on okular no problem but the on evince the black text highlighted in yellow, which has a popup box too, is invisible.
Comment 4 Scott Kostyshak 2009-07-22 06:25:30 UTC 
*** Bug 588835 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Scott Kostyshak 2009-07-22 06:26:36 UTC 
I added 588835 as a duplicate. Please note that a pdf with an example of the problem is posted there, in comment 1.
Comment 6 Carlos Garcia Campos 2009-07-22 07:48:54 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 490648 ***