Selections work column by column, not row by row
Bug #681126 reported by
Greg A
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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poppler (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
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.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: libpoppler7 0.14.3-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSign
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
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Incomplete |
status: | Incomplete → Confirmed |
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