Selections work column by column, not row by row

[Greg A]

When selecting text that is in "blocks" (see attached PDF) then text is selected in columns, rather than in rows. In some contexts this makes PDF readers that use poppler almost useless.

The problem was noticed in Evince and Okular. Adobe Reader does not experience this problem.

See also: http://www.cipher.maths.soton.ac.uk/forum/12-bug-reporting/3660-pdf-select-column-by-column-not-row-by-row

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libpoppler7 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-23.40-generic 2.6.35.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 24 20:27:14 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: poppler