selecting partly italic text shows the whole text as italic

Bug #689008 reported by Markus Ilmola
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #39890: characters change when selecting text. Edit Remove
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Opening a pdf that has text with the first letter in italic and then selecting (highlighting) that text will show the whole selected text as italic.

Sample pdf attached to this bug report.
Just open the the sample pdf with evince and select (highlight) the text in the pdf with the mouse and the whole text is shown in italic instead of just the first letter.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: evince 2.30.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-26.48-generic 2.6.32.24+drm33.11
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-26-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Dec 11 20:26:40 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=fi_FI.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince

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Markus Ilmola (markus-ilmola) wrote :
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Marcel Stimberg (marcelstimberg) wrote :

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 39321, 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.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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