Evince doesn't display selection in djvu documents

Bug #120860 reported by Geoffrey Washburn
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Evince
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One Hundred Papercuts
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evince (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

Evince does not appear to be able to select text in djvu documents, even though djview can select text when viewing the same document.

Text extraction is implemented, but not selection rendering.
Evince is actually able to select and copy text, but the normal selection rectangle is not displayed. infact, if you mimic the selection gesture on a word, right-click -> copy and paste it somewhere, it is actually pasted!

Tags: usability
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Geoffrey Washburn (washburn-acm) wrote :

I should have noted that this is with evince 0.8.1 as part of Feisty (7.04).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug, could you attach an example?

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Geoffrey Washburn (washburn-acm) wrote :

I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for in an example. However, say you open the following document

http://research.microsoft.com/~simonpj/Papers/pj-lester-book/student.djvu

with djview (which I installed using apt-get) it is possible to use one of the selection tools to select text within the document. evince can select text in PDF (and I believe PostScript documents) but it does not recognize that there is any selectable text in a djvu document (such as the above).

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

An example allows to test if the bug happens to other users and having something to work on

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in evince:
status: Needs Info → Confirmed
Changed in evince:
status: Unknown → Unconfirmed
Changed in evince:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Dimitrios Symeonidis (azimout) wrote :

Still an issue in Karmic, attaching the file for coherence

tags: added: usability
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Josh Wachuta (modernfoyers) wrote :

Still exists in Evince 2.30.3 in Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.

Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) wrote :

Still exists in Maverick, v2.32.0.

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Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) wrote :

Actually, you can select text, but the selection doesn't show on-screen. Ctrl-C still copies it.

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Mechanical snail (replicator-snail) wrote :

(proposing as papercut since problem exists in default install and fix is likely easier than we thought, since it's just a display glitch)

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Ahmed Shams (ashams) wrote :

Confirmed in One Hundred Paper Cuts project.

description: updated
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Evince cannot select text in djvu documents
+ Evince doesn't display selection in djvu documents
Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
Mörgæs (moergaes)
Changed in hundredpapercuts:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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