Comment 125 for bug 33288

Yeah. It's a bugger. That's reasonable behavior. I imagine it's
impracticable to include the history of the mouse trajectory in your the
guess of which line to select on. Anyway. This version is just an enormous
improvement, so thanks to you all.

On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Brian Ewins <email address hidden> wrote:

> Mark: what's going on there is that the bounding boxes of the (1) (2)
> (3) ... text regions are tightly around the text you can see, and when
> the mouse is between them, its not over any text region at all. Hence,
> the best guess of what you were trying to select is the nearest text
> region (by manhattan distance), which will be the one above or below the
> current line, because these columns are very short and widely spaced.
> When the mouse is close to what you intended to select, and not in the
> middle of blank space, this usually does the right thing. Acrobat makes
> the same guess.
>
> --
> Evince doesn't handle columns properly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33288
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> Status in Poppler: Confirmed
> Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> Status in “poppler” source package in Lucid: Fix Committed
>
> 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_0.12.4-0ubuntu4_2_0.12.4-0ubuntu5.debdiff attached there for
> information. I'm removing old debdiff to avoid confusion.
>
> poppler (0.12.4-0ubuntu5) lucid-proposed; urgency=low
>
> * debian/patches/11_column_selection.patch:
> - 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://www.specialist-games.com/mordheim/assets/lrb/1Rules.pdf
>
> 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
>
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