Comment 39 for bug 199468

(In reply to comment #31)
> Indeed, evince does not support text selection in the horde of document formats
> that Okular does, our selection might be better or worse but it is [mostly]
> consisten among document formats.
>
> But you don't really care, you like bashing developers because you think that
> will make them realize that you are right.

Albert, relax. But still, for many users Okular = pdf and for many users pdf = two-column scientific papers. Okular uses the poppler backend for pdf and if the backend now supports column selection, so should Okular.

I am sure there are already some if... then to handle all the formats you say Okular supports. Please consider making it a priority to add use of the poppler backend if the format where selection is happening is pdf.

Thanks,
Peter