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[Albert Astals Cid <albert.astals@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I just realized we never really followed up on the last two patches.

My concern is that they change the pdftotext output.

I though they where for a) speed b) text selection so i'd prefer if they
did not change pdftotext output.

I've checked a few files of the changed ones and the changes can be
argued not to be for better or worse, but then again the problem is that
1 out of 3 files i have has a changed output in pdftotext and having
1600 files in the test suite it makes it impossible for me to go over
them all and verify the changes are "not better nor worse".

Is there any chance we get patches that don't influence pdftotext output
or at least not such drastically?

And yes, i know it's ages ago since you wrote the patches, sorry.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33288

Title:
  Evince doesn't handle columns properly

Status in Poppler:
  Confirmed
Status in poppler package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in poppler source package in Lucid:
  Fix Released

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)

  
  ----------------------------
  ----------------------------

  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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