Bug 276580

Summary:	PDF text selection broken for multiple column files
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Jim <guilfordstuff>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	mamun.nightcrawler
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Jim 2011-06-27 01:25:05 UTC

Version:           0.12.2 (using KDE 4.6.2) 
OS:                Linux

Most journal PDf files have 2-3 columns of text.  The text selection tool ignores those columns and so does the yellow highlighter tool (probably for the same reason).  Multi-column text selection works fine in Gnome Document Viewer 2.32.0 (of course, there is no editing feature).  This bug also has a huge impact on ability to cut text from a PDF.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open multi-column PDF file
Select text from the right hand column
Notice that it selects text across the whole width of the page.


Expected Results:  
Should only select from the column in use.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.38-8-generic
Compiler: cc

Comment 1 Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun 2011-06-27 02:07:38 UTC

I think this is a duplicate of the bug 161324

Comment 2 Jim 2011-06-27 02:50:02 UTC

Yes, it's a duplicate.  The other bug didn't come up in a search for "annotation" or "highlighter", so, I submitted it.  I see okular is listed as using poppler on the poppler site.  Any word on if multi-column format will be supported?

Comment 3 Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun 2011-06-27 03:01:56 UTC

Currently a GSOC project is going on for supporting multi-column in both selection and highlighting. I hope, this support can be added soon after the completion of the project.

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2011-06-27 07:36:50 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161324 ***