GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 632365
Cannot text-select large characters
Last modified: 2012-05-20 08:00:30 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!
Created attachment 172548 [details] Demonstration of issue: large "₹" and smaller string "Indian ₹upee Sign"
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.