PDF text is blanked when backwards selected

[gpk]

Binary package hint: evince

When you select text in a PDF file, using a upwards sweep, the selected area is displayed improperly.
You end up with large blank areas on the right ends of selected lines.

The image becomes correct when your cursor leaves the evince window.

I attach a screen shot. The cursor was swept upwards and leftwards, and everything to the
right of the cursor trajectory has been blanked out.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.37-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 7 19:09:21 2010
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
SourcePackage: evince
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3090): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:3090): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_format_get_name: assertion `format != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3107): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:3108): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, may you please attach that document to the report? thanks.

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

Sorry. Can't attach that one: it's a research proposal.
You can have it in 2012, when it'll either be funded and under way
or obsolete.

I tried cutting it, but I cannot make a suitably small fraction of it
misbehave.

On 08/11/10 18:28, Pedro Villavicencio wrote:
> thanks for the report, may you please attach that document to the
> report? thanks.
>
> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
>
> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for evince (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[gpk (gpk-kochanski)]

Here's a PDF document that does the trick that I can release.

If you go left-button-down nearly anywhere, and sweep towards the upper left, you will see text that is to the upper right of your trajectory disappear.

[Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 88893, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.