Evince doesn't handle columns properly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Poppler |
Unknown
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Medium
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
Lucid |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
So, now that RC is here, let's propose it as an SRU.
I've pushed it in lucid-proposed. The debdiff is poppler_
poppler (0.12.4-0ubuntu5) lucid-proposed; urgency=low
* debian/
- backport from upstream git commit to fix wrong selection in pdf when
containing tables, long text, broken flow and so on.
(fixing most of known issues with selection in pdf) (LP: #33288)
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When making a multi column selection from a PDF like this:
http://
And pasting the result into OpenOffice.org the columns are not maintained. The results unusable because the text from both columns becomes mixed.
Please note, this is not a PDF problem, using Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.x under Windows does properly copy-paste columned text over to OpenOffice.org.
Regards,
Pascal de Bruijn
Related branches
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: patch |
tags: |
added: patch-needswork removed: patch |
tags: |
added: patch-accepted-upstream removed: patch-needswork |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Didier Roche (didrocks) |
status: | Fix Committed → In Progress |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Didier Roche (didrocks) → nobody |
status: | In Progress → Triaged |
description: | updated |
tags: | added: verification-needed |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu Lucid): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
tags: |
added: verification-done removed: verification-needed |
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
Changed in poppler: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in poppler: | |
importance: | Medium → Unknown |
Changed in poppler: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
Changed in poppler: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
As I reported in http:// bugzilla. gnome.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 326358 (now closed), ftp.gnu. org/non- gnu/cvs/ source/ stable/ 1.11.21/ cederqvist- 1.11.21. pdf) also.
this happens with the CVS manual
(http://