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[Bug 768264] Re: Evince: Copying a paragraph out of a pdf-file is making mistakes

 

** Attachment added: "1311004.pdf"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/768264/+attachment/4282570/+files/1311004.pdf

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: evince
  
- As described above:
- Copying a paragraph containing quotation marks is defective. The first quotation mark is always copied as a "1", the second as an "a".
- Copying the first passage of the second page of this pdf (http://dip.bundestag.de/btd/13/110/1311004.pdf) brings this:
+ 1) lsb_release -rd
+ Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
+ Release:	15.04
  
- 1Kein Stein wird auf dem anderen bleiben!a Das ist die Quintessenz Roland Ber-
- gers über die Perspektiven der Informationsgesellschaft in seinem Gutachten für
- die Enquete-Kommission: 1Zehn Thesen zur Ökonomie der Informationsgesell-
- schaft am Standort Deutschland im 21. Jahrhunderta.1)
+ 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 when one copies the first paragraph of the
+ second page of
+ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/768264/+attachment/4282570/+files/1311004.pdf
+ it does so verbatim, just like Adobe Reader.
+ 
+ 4) What happens instead is the first comma is not highlightable.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Apr 21 13:18:34 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-11 (9 days ago)

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

** Summary changed:

- Evince: Copying a paragraph out of a pdf-file is making mistakes
+ Unable to copy first quote

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Title:
  Unable to copy first quote

Status in Evince document viewer:
  New
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 when one copies the first paragraph of
  the second page of
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/768264/+attachment/4282570/+files/1311004.pdf
  it does so verbatim, just like Adobe Reader.

  4) What happens instead is the first comma is not highlightable.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Apr 21 13:18:34 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   LANG=de_DE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  SourcePackage: evince
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-11 (9 days ago)

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