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On 2015-10-18T01:43:46+00:00 Christopher M. Penalver wrote:

Created attachment 118948
emrscheme-1.pdf

Upstreaming as advised in:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=741623

Downstream report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/545176

lsb_release -rd
Description:	Ubuntu Wily Werewolf (development branch)
Release:	15.10

apt-cache policy poppler-utils
poppler-utils:
  Installed: 0.33.0-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.33.0-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 0.33.0-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

What is expected to happen with Evince is that when one opens the
attached PDF file, one may select any of the text, just like in Adobe
Reader.

What happens instead is only a handful of letters are selectable as per
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/41742091/Screenshot-2.png . First
reported against Ubuntu 9.10 evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 / poppler-utils
0.12.4-0ubuntu4.

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/545176/comments/11

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On 2016-01-07T18:56:23+00:00 Jason Crain wrote:

I don't see why it would be useful to select text from this document.
You aren't going to be able to copy and paste any readable text from it.
The document doesn't use a standard encoding or include a way to map
from charcode to text, so at best you're going to get a bunch of random
letters and control characters.

Reply at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/545176/comments/12


** Changed in: poppler
       Status: Unknown => Confirmed

** Changed in: poppler
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  Cannot copy text from specific pdf in evince

Status in Evince:
  Unknown
Status in Poppler:
  Confirmed
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evince

  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
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/545176/+attachment/1239564/+files/emrscheme.pdf
  is that one may select any of the text, just like Adobe Reader.

  4) What happens instead is only a handful of letters are selectable as
  per https://launchpadlibrarian.net/41742091/Screenshot-2.png .

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Mar 23 21:09:22 2010
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
  Package: evince 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_IN.UTF-8
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_IN.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.58-generic
  SourcePackage: evince
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic i686

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