Created attachment 118948 [details] emrscheme-1.pdf Upstreaming as advised in: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741623 Downstream report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/545176 lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch) Release: 15.10 apt-cache policy poppler-utils poppler-utils: Installed: 0.33.0-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 0.33.0-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 0.33.0-0ubuntu3 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status What is expected to happen with Evince is that when one opens the attached PDF file, one may select any of the text, just like in Adobe Reader. What happens instead is only a handful of letters are selectable as per https://launchpadlibrarian.net/41742091/Screenshot-2.png . First reported against Ubuntu 9.10 evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 / poppler-utils 0.12.4-0ubuntu4.
I don't see why it would be useful to select text from this document. You aren't going to be able to copy and paste any readable text from it. The document doesn't use a standard encoding or include a way to map from charcode to text, so at best you're going to get a bunch of random letters and control characters.
Jason Crain, thanks for taking a look. Given your point about the documents encoding is confirmed with Windows 10's built-in PDF reader, this is considered closed.
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