GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 741689
Evince cannot select one column in a two column PDF
Last modified: 2014-12-18 00:37:52 UTC
Downstream report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/594205 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/594205/+attachment/1499641/+files/Example.pdf is one is able to highlight one column at a time, just like in Adobe Reader. 4) What happens instead is it highlights both columns at a time.
Please, next don't include non-relevant downstream information. Most important things to include when submitting a pdf bug in Evince are evince version, poppler version and cairo version. In this particular bug, the bug is in poppler text layout heuristics. So please forward the bug to freedesktop's bugzilla
I am sorry, my wording was bad... I don't mean to be rude about downstream information. it's just that it does not help us too much to know which version of ubuntu (having a link to the downstream bug is great!) What helps us the most are relevant packages versions. THanks for forwarding the bugs upstream :)
José Aliste, thanks for the quick response and information. It is greatly appreciated. I've modified the upstreaming procedure noted in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingEvince to include your requests (as well as give it a complete overhaul) which should avoid this in the future. Thank you for your understanding.