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evince and selection on rotated text

Bug #245620 reported by ®om
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Bug Description

Upstream URL:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/499

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

2) apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen via the attached document is that one may highlight the text that has been rotated at a 45 degree angle, one row at a time, just like Adobe Reader 10.x:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/245620/+attachment/314937/+files/m1.pdf

4) What happens instead is it highlights parts of the line, along with others, as per the attached screenshot:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/245620/+attachment/314936/+files/Capture-1.png

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Tags: hardy vivid
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®om (rom1v) wrote :

When selecting rotated text in evince, it doesn't work correctly (see attached screenshot).

The original pdf is attached too...

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®om (rom1v) wrote :
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®om (rom1v) wrote :
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Vladimir Osintsev (osintsev) wrote :

Confirmed on Hardy Heron with Evince Document Viewer 2.22.2

Changed in poppler:
status: New → Confirmed
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in poppler:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16619

Changed in poppler:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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®om (rom1v) wrote :

Thanks for reported to freedesktop.org.

When I click on the link, it says that the security certificate is invalid. :(

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®om (rom1v) wrote :

s/reported/having reported

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Changed in poppler:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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importance: Medium → Unknown
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importance: Unknown → Medium
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In , Marek Kašík (mkasik) wrote :

Created attachment 92928
Respect orientation when selecting words

Attached is a patch which improves selection of words when PDF is rotated by multiples of 90°. It sets correct bounds on various visit*() functions.

The patch doesn't solve all problems related to this. There are still problems with order of selected lines and blocks when multiple blocks are selected.

The problem with correct order of lines is easier to fix but I have not a patch ready yet. The problem with correct order of blocks is a little bit harder since it needs to correct flows.

The main problem why I started to look into this was that poppler shows this warning on some PDFs (see next attachment):

*** BUG ***
In pixman_region32_init_rect: Invalid rectangle passed
Set a breakpoint on '_pixman_log_error' to debug

Btw, the patch doesn't fix the problem shown on the Pedro's screenshot but it is related to the name of this bug.

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In , Marek Kašík (mkasik) wrote :

Created attachment 92929
reproducer showing "Invalid rectangle" error when selecting text

penalvch (penalvch)
description: updated
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In , penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Problem confirmed:

1) lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
Release: 15.04

2) libpoppler 0.28.1-1ubuntu1

apt-cache policy evince
evince:
  Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

3) What is expected to happen via the attached document is that one may highlight the text that has been rotated at a 45 degree angle, one row at a time, just like Adobe Reader 10.x:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/245620/+attachment/314937/+files/m1.pdf

4) What happens instead is it highlights parts of the line, along with others, as per the attached screenshot:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/245620/+attachment/314936/+files/Capture-1.png

Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
importance: Low → Medium
madbiologist (me-again)
tags: added: hardy vivid
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In , Gitlab-migration (gitlab-migration) wrote :

-- GitLab Migration Automatic Message --

This bug has been migrated to freedesktop.org's GitLab instance and has been closed from further activity.

You can subscribe and participate further through the new bug through this link to our GitLab instance: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/499.

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Changed in poppler:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
penalvch (penalvch)
no longer affects: poppler (Ubuntu)
affects: poppler → poppler (Ubuntu)
Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Undecided
status: Unknown → New
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Triaged
description: updated
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