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[Bug 545176] Re: Cannot copy text from specific pdf in evince

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From: "Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 2016 10:07:01 -0000
Reply-to: Bug 545176 <545176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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drpjkurian, as per upstream:
"The document doesn't use a standard encoding or include a way to map from charcode to text"

Hence, the root cause here resides with how the original author created
the PDF, versus a software bug in a PDF viewer.

** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Medium => Undecided

** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu)
       Status: Triaged => Invalid

** No longer affects: evince

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Title:
  Cannot copy text from specific pdf in evince

Status in Poppler:
  Confirmed
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

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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