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."
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
The submitter wrote in the description that he tried with acroread and that it works correctly
which version is he using?
how does it matter what version of acroread is working?
Because i used the last version available and the user may be using an old version not implementing the specification correctly.
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?
Also, I'm not sure this can really be a problem in cairo backend.
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Not a bug as the PDF text is simply not there. Reopen if you can prove i'm wrong
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