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[Jose-aliste-m <594205@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is a problem with the Text layout algorithm inside TextOutputDev:

Running pdftotext gives the following ordering of paragraphs (the
ellipsis are mine):

1. Apart from the emphasis ...

2. about this attitude ...

3. Integrative contractors
Our research has ...

4. Integrative clients
Integrative attitudes ...

5. Integrative contractors’ engineers
Integrative ...

6. Distributive attitudes ...

7. Economically ...

8. An integrative attitude to the occupational order?
An integrative ...

while it should be 1,3,5,2,4,6,7,8. The fact that in evince we can't
select just one column is a consequence of this misorder in the
paragraphs.

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

Status in Poppler:
  Confirmed
Status in poppler package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  1) lsb_release -rd
  Description:	Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch)
  Release:	15.04

  2)  apt-cache policy libpoppler[0-9]
  libpoppler47:
    Installed: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1
    Candidate: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1
    Version table:
   *** 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 0
          500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  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://launchpadlibrarian.net/53980611/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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