Highlighting words selects highlights random things

[Glenn]

Binary package hint: evince

1) Ubuntu 8.04.1

2) ii evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu Document (postscript, pdf) viewer

3) I drag my mouse over text and I think it should only highlight what I've dragged over.

4) Evince actually highlights parts of previous portions of text, many times including the bullet on the same line, parts of the line from a different column, or other pieces of text.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 10 16:11:07 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev (nshmyrev)]

Agree, we have a lot of problems with selection in multicolumn documents and
even crashes.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325457

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325189

And I can even reproduce "unexpected async reply" X crash with the document above.

[Glenn (gleenn)]

Binary package hint: evince

1) Ubuntu 8.04.1

2) ii evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu Document (postscript, pdf) viewer

3) I drag my mouse over text and I think it should only highlight what I've dragged over.

4) Evince actually highlights parts of previous portions of text, many times including the bullet on the same line, parts of the line from a different column, or other pieces of text.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Nov 10 16:11:07 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.22.2-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

[Glenn (gleenn)]

In the attachment you should note that two of the bullets are highlighted (as seen different from a bullet above) and it should look fairly clear that the neither of the bullets should be highlighted but only the text should.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

that's a poppler issue, could you attach the pdf? thanks in advance.

[Glenn (gleenn)]

As per request, a PDF that has issues with highlighting. Try selecting part of a bulleted line without selecting the bullet. The first bullet item on the second page always shows the problem for me.

Thanks Pedro and everyone working on this otherwise great program.

Glenn

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

right it selectes the bullet also, will look upstream thanks for the quick feedback.

[Nickolay V. Shmyrev (nshmyrev)]

*** Bug 18531 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've sent this upstream at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18531

[Brian Ewins (brian-ewins)]

I believe this bug and bug 3188 have a common cause. I've posted a patch there which seems to fix the problem, but needs better testing. Hopefully some of the cc list here are interested?

[Martin Erik Werner (arand)]

I think this is similar to the issue in Bug #33288

[Adresatt (adresatt)]

I also have this problem using all libpoppler-based pdf-viewers. But it's not only with muti-colun text, but also with vertical-oriented text and upper or lower indexes. When i try to select a word on a line, which contain these symbols, they are become selected to. It often happens whith indexes in other columns.

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Sergey, in the future please do not play with severity, priority nor change the status of the bug to assigned.

[madbiologist (me-again)]

Using the file attached to comment #6, I can no longer reproduce this bug on Raring with evince 3.6.1-1ubuntu3 and poppler 0.20.5-1ubuntu3.

[Frédéric Parrenin (parrenin-ujf)]

I confirm that selection still behaves strangely on some pdf file, especially with multiple columns.
I use evince 3.14.1 and poppler 0.26.5 on debian jessie.
I attach again one file attached to gnome bug #325189 because it is a good test case.

[Frédéric Parrenin (parrenin-ujf)]

Created attachment 116679
a pdf file test case for this bug

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