Bug 276581

Summary:	PDF text selection broken for multiple column files
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Jim <guilfordstuff>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal
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 Pino Toscano 2011-06-27 07:38:09 UTC

Reported already (bug #276580).