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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.m.penalver@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: evince
  
- Hi 
- I am using Karmic Kaola with the latest kernel
- When I try to copy the text from a paragraph in a pdf file, The programme selects few random alphabets (usually the first letter of the word)from the paragraph. I was not able to select the whole paragraph to copy.
+ 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
+  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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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/545176

Title:
  cannot copy text from pdf in evince

Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

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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