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Bug 741623 - Cannot copy text from specific pdf in evince
Cannot copy text from specific pdf in evince
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-12-17 01:45 UTC by Christopher M. Penalver
Modified: 2015-10-18 02:26 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christopher M. Penalver 2014-12-17 01:45:11 UTC 
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 via https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/545176/+attachment/1239564/+files/emrscheme.pdf is that one may select any of the text, just like Adobe Reader.

4) What happens instead is only a handful of letters are selectable as per https://launchpadlibrarian.net/41742091/Screenshot-2.png . First reported against Ubuntu 9.10 evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2.
Comment 1 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2015-10-16 20:39:47 UTC 
This is an issue in poppler.  It can be reproduced with poppler-glib-demo.

Please, file a bug report in https://bugs.freedesktop.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=poppler
Comment 2 Christopher M. Penalver 2015-10-18 01:44:48 UTC 
Germán Poo-Caamaño, thanks for investigating this. This has been reported as requested to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92516 .
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2015-10-18 02:26:10 UTC 
Thanks Christopher.

In the report, you can also mention that the bug is reproducible with poppler-glib-demo. That helps the developer to narrow the issue.

Closing this one as it is being tracked where it belongs to.