Bug 12268

Summary:	With Evince I can't copy text out from PDF documents created with cups-pdf
Product:	poppler	Reporter:	Sebastien Bacher <seb128>
Component:	cairo backend	Assignee:	poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Sebastien Bacher 2007-09-03 05:06:55 UTC

The bug has been sent on http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403984 and evince upstream indicated that's a poppler issue

That bug has been opened on
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/49498

"...
The step to reproduce are:
1) install cups-pdf
2) open gnome-cups-manager and install the new printer, then make a test
pressing the
    "Print a test page" button
3) open in Evince the just created PDF document and try to copy the text ====>
you are able to do
4) open gedit, write something, and choose to create a PDF with cups-pdf
5) open in Evince the PDF document just created and try to copy the text ====>
you aren't able to do
...
http://librarian.launchpad.net/3026073/job_11-untitled_document.pdf
a PDF document printed with cups-pdf

This PDF document was written with gedit and printed with the cups-pdf virtual
printer.
When I open this PDF document with Evince, I'm not able to select text and copy
out.
...
Just to try, I have installed the Adobe Reader package.
I have opened the PDF document printed with cups-pdf in Adobe Reader and here I
can copy out the text.
Therefore the problem is in the Evince document viewer."

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2007-09-19 13:44:06 UTC

But do you actually get something meaningful when copying from Acrobat Reader? Because here i get 

*MPI  (SGYQIRXS   RSR WEPZEXS 4EKMRE   HM  
RMGSPE$GEZIVKRS b  WYHS  IXG MRMX H GYTW]W VIWXEVX
4EWW[SVH 
   6IWXEVXMRK 'SQQSR 9RM\ 4VMRXMRK 7]WXIQ  GYTWH                         ? SO A
RMGSPE$GEZIVKRS b 

I'm leaning towards it beign a bug on cups-pdf

Comment 2 Sebastien Bacher 2007-10-10 13:45:09 UTC

The submitter wrote in the description that he tried with acroread and that it works correctly

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2007-10-11 10:56:42 UTC

which version is he using?

Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2007-10-13 01:50:45 UTC

how does it matter what version of acroread is working?

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2007-10-13 02:01:49 UTC

Because i used the last version available and the user may be using an old version not implementing the specification correctly.

Comment 6 Brad Hards 2007-12-09 17:50:46 UTC

I just tried it with Acroread 5.0 (which is from 2001) on Windows XP, and I get roughly the same as the output in Comment #1. The difference is in the underscores.

*MPI__(SGYQIRXS___RSR_WEPZEXS 4EKMRE___HM__
RMGSPE$GEZIVKRS_b__WYHS__IXG_MRMX_H_GYTW]W_VIWXEVX
4EWW[SVH_
___6IWXEVXMRK_'SQQSR_9RM\_4VMRXMRK_7]WXIQ__GYTWH_________________________?_SO_A
RMGSPE$GEZIVKRS_b_

I'd really like to see acroread pull the data out correctly.

Sebastian: can you please chase this up with the original reporter?

Comment 7 Brad Hards 2007-12-09 17:53:49 UTC

Also, I'm not sure this can really be a problem in cairo backend.

Comment 8 Benjamin Close 2008-01-11 02:38:57 UTC

Bugzilla Upgrade Mass Bug Change

NEEDSINFO state was removed in Bugzilla 3.x, reopening any bugs previously listed as NEEDSINFO.

  - benjsc
    fd.o Wrangler

Comment 9 Albert Astals Cid 2011-06-19 15:03:17 UTC

Not a bug as the PDF text is simply not there. Reopen if you can prove i'm wrong

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