find command does not find anything

Bug #769700 reported by julio cesar dalla rosa
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evince (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

I was reading a text when I accidentally pressed END, so evince went to the last page of the book. To go back to the page that i was reading a tried do use FIND. I pressed CTRL-F, typed a word that I remember certainly was in the text and evince sad "not found". I don't believe and try again with another words, many times and never find the word, even though it was just in the screen in front of me.
I am using Ubuntu 11.04 - the Natty Narwhal
I am using Document Viewer 2.32.0 it's using poppler/cairo (0.16.4)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Apr 23 22:27:01 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110413)
ProcCmdline_: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=f496debc-d857-4626-817b-5be9ab7423e9 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:en
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XsessionErrors: (nautilus:5289): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_value_free: assertion `value != NULL' failed

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julio cesar dalla rosa (juliocesardallarosa) wrote :
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julio cesar dalla rosa (juliocesardallarosa) wrote :

Late I tried the same document with Adobe Reader X, windows 7 and it does not find any word either.
If needed I can send the PDF file to test (0.99 MB).

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for the report, is this still an issue with Oneiric? could you please attach the pdf file to the report? Thanks.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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julio cesar dalla rosa (juliocesardallarosa) wrote :

Now I am using Ubuntu 11.10, evince viewer 3.2.1 (it tell it uses poppler/cairo 0.16.7).
I made a test with 25 files.
24 works fine. The find work well.
Only 1 document has problems. The find does not find anything.
It looks like the problem is only with this file.

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julio cesar dalla rosa (juliocesardallarosa) wrote :

Here is the PDF where the find comand does not work.

Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → New
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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :
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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

The encoding of the PDF is jacked, as one cannot find highlightable characters via Evince or Adobe Reader. As well, copying from Reader causes an internal error. Copying and pasting from Evince shows garbage.

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