Bug 87874 - PDF renders correctly, but only cryptic data is copied to clipboard
Summary: PDF renders correctly, but only cryptic data is copied to clipboard
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium major
Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2014-12-30 20:26 UTC by Ettore Atalan
Modified: 2014-12-31 05:49 UTC (History)
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2014-12-30 20:26 UTC, Ettore Atalan 		Details
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Description Ettore Atalan 2014-12-30 20:26:38 UTC 
Created attachment 111537 [details]
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Hi,

the attached PDF file renders correctly with poppler, but only cryptic data is copied to clipboard. The data copied to clipboard is cryptic and completely different from the data wihtin the PDF.

Several poppler-based PDF viewers have this problem too.

Best Regards,
Ettore Atalan
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-12-30 21:14:34 UTC 
That's just the pdf that was created wrongly, nothing we can do.
Comment 2 Ettore Atalan 2014-12-30 21:29:53 UTC 
An error handling (text in PDF document = text in clipboard) for wrongly created PDF files?
Comment 3 Jason Crain 2014-12-31 05:49:03 UTC 
(In reply to Ettore Atalan from comment #2)
> An error handling (text in PDF document = text in clipboard) for wrongly
> created PDF files?

How would you detect that the text on the clipboard is different from what you see in the document?  Short of doing something ridiculous like running OCR.

You should complain to whoever created that file.  It encodes characters nonsensically.

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