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evince package

Default PDF-wiever cannot search after copying text

Bug #237428 reported by launcspad on 2008-06-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #227523: Evince search not working after closing and re-opening the search toolbar. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evince (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

I recently downloaded a PDF file and opened it with the default PDF-wiever. (I don't know its name.) I've been searching for a special text, and it worked well: the text was found and everything is fine. Now I copied a part of this document into an Openoffice document, then changed back to the -- open left -- PDF document. I wanted to search more but the search function don't work, totally corrupt. I could breath a new life in the searcher only with reopening the PDF-document.

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launcspad (weblev-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-06-04:

Workaround: modyfiing the search text and again, back to the original solves the problem.

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launcspad (weblev-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2008-06-04:

The bug is not connected to the copying: even if you click on the document area you cannot continue your search unless you start a new one.

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Jerzy Mansarliński (jmansar) wrote on 2008-06-05:

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has already been reported here (
bug #227523). Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.