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

** Attachment removed: "Global workspace theory of consciousness.pdf"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/594205/+attachment/1660570/+files/Global%20workspace%20theory%20of%20consciousness.pdf

** Attachment removed: "book review.pdf"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/594205/+attachment/1660586/+files/book%20review.pdf

** Description changed:

- When trying to select a sentence or paragraph from one (of the two)
- column(s) of some PDF files (for instance a scientific paper),
- paragraphs of the other column are selected as well. It is like Document
- Viewer 2.30.1 does not recognize the columns in all PDF-files.
+ 1) lsb_release -rd
+ Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
+ Release:	15.04
  
- Copying and pasting text from some two-columned PDF files is therefore
- impossible, unless I will after pasting delete all the fragments of the
- other column that came along.
+ 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/594205/+attachment/1499641/+files/Example.pdf
+ is one is able to highlight one column at a time, just like in Adobe
+ Reader.
+ 
+ 4) What happens instead is it highlights both columns at a time.
+ 
+ WORKAROUND: Open with Chromium's built-in PDF reader:
+  apt-cache policy chromium-browser
+ chromium-browser:
+   Installed: 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
+   Candidate: 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
+   Version table:
+  *** 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 0
+         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
+         500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages
+         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
+      34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
+         500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

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

** Summary changed:

- Document viewer cannot select one column in a two-columned PDF
+ Evince cannot select one column in a two column PDF

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/594205

Title:
  Evince cannot select one column in a two column PDF

Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  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/594205/+attachment/1499641/+files/Example.pdf
  is one is able to highlight one column at a time, just like in Adobe
  Reader.

  4) What happens instead is it highlights both columns at a time.

  WORKAROUND: Open with Chromium's built-in PDF reader:
   apt-cache policy chromium-browser
  chromium-browser:
    Installed: 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
    Candidate: 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064
    Version table:
   *** 39.0.2171.65-0ubuntu0.14.04.1.1064 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/universe amd64 Packages
          500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/universe amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       34.0.1847.116-0ubuntu2 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe amd64 Packages

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