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Bug 632365 - Cannot text-select large characters
Cannot text-select large characters
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-10-17 15:35 UTC by Paul Sladen
Modified: 2012-05-20 08:00 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Attachments
Demonstration of issue: large "₹" and smaller string "Indian ₹upee Sign" (6.41 KB, application/pdf)
2010-10-17 15:37 UTC, Paul Sladen
Details

Description Paul Sladen 2010-10-17 15:35:14 UTC
The attached PDF shows the new Indian Rupee Sign (₹) exported from Inkscape;  with the smaller text at the bottom of the PDF it is possible to drag over and select it for copy and paste.

However, neither "Select All", or dragging over the symbol itself highlights the large symbol for copy-and-paste.

The large symbol is textual in nature (this can be confirmed by re-opening the PDF in Inkscape, or using pdftohtml).

Ideally it would be possible to highlight and select all text in a document, regardless of size.  In this case the document had been created specifically to encourage people to copy-and-paste the correct symbol into their own documents!
Comment 1 Paul Sladen 2010-10-17 15:37:29 UTC
Created attachment 172548 [details]
Demonstration of issue: large "₹" and smaller string "Indian ₹upee Sign"
Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2012-05-20 08:00:30 UTC
Poppler doesn't recognize the first large symbol as text, I've just forwarded the bug to the freedesktop bugzilla:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50138

Thanks for reporting.