| Summary: | Evince cannot select one column in a two column PDF | ||
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| Product: | poppler | Reporter: | Christopher M. Penalver <christopher.m.penalver> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED MOVED | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | normal | ||
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux (All) | ||
| URL: | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/594205 | ||
| Whiteboard: | |||
| i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
This is a problem with the Text layout algorithm inside TextOutputDev: Running pdftotext gives the following ordering of paragraphs (the ellipsis are mine): 1. Apart from the emphasis ... 2. about this attitude ... 3. Integrative contractors Our research has ... 4. Integrative clients Integrative attitudes ... 5. Integrative contractors’ engineers Integrative ... 6. Distributive attitudes ... 7. Economically ... 8. An integrative attitude to the occupational order? An integrative ... while it should be 1,3,5,2,4,6,7,8. The fact that in evince we can't select just one column is a consequence of this misorder in the paragraphs. -- GitLab Migration Automatic Message -- This bug has been migrated to freedesktop.org's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity. You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/409. |
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1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04 2) apt-cache policy libpoppler[0-9] libpoppler47: Installed: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 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://launchpadlibrarian.net/53980611/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.