Bug 10856

Summary:	Underscores do not copy/paste
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc>
Component:	general	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED NOTABUG	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	CC:	freedesktop
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Description Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-05-04 09:32:14 UTC

Bug forwarded from Evince: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=435874

"I'm reading the PDF version of Mel Gorman's book "Understanding the Linux
Memory Manager" and taking notes in gedit. 

http://www.phptr.com/content/images/0131453483/downloads/gorman_book.pdf

When I try to copy words with underscores, they paste into gedit with spaces
instead of underscores.

For example, page 15 has a line which reads

"This struct is always referenced by its typedef pg_data_t"

but when I paste I get

"This struct is always referenced by its typedef pg_data_t"

This also happens when pasting into Firefox and Evolution, so I'm assuming it's
not a gedit bug."

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2007-05-05 03:34:55 UTC

Happens on acroread too, without further investigation i'd blame the pdf itself more than poppler.

Comment 2 Jeff Muizelaar 2007-05-21 20:02:18 UTC

Probably the program that is creating the pdf uses scaled 1x1 images or something equally foolish for underscores.

Comment 3 Pablo Rodríguez 2008-09-08 11:02:59 UTC

If underscores aren't there, shouldn't the bug be close as NOTOURBUG?

Thanks,


Pablo

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2008-09-08 15:10:55 UTC

Agreed, we match Adobe Reader behaviour so not a bug, just that the document is "malformed" for what you want it.

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