Bug 330991

Summary:	Unable to select table for a second time (without restarting Okular)
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	AD <atheistdostoevsky>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, jonathan.doman, yurchor
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.16.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mint (Ubuntu based)
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description AD 2014-02-10 18:56:26 UTC

While using the 'table selection' tool in Okular, i'm unable to use the feature twice, while staying on the program. Once i've copied a table the selection doesn't work until i restart okular. Text selection is working just fine.

Specifications:

-LinuxMint 15 (Olivia) KDE 4.10.5
-Okular 0.16.5

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open PDF with a table to select
2. Select table
3. Try selecting once again
Actual Results:  
The 'rectangle' for table selection doesn't appear anymore. I have to restart Okular each time i make table selection.

Expected Results:  
Rectangle should have appeared on second time.

Comment 1 Yuri Chornoivan 2014-02-10 19:31:54 UTC

I cannot reproduce such behavior in Okular 0.18.60/Poppler 0.25.1 with papers from Elsevier and Springer journals and self-made PDFs from my LibreOffice documents.

Can you attach an example to test?

Comment 2 Christoph Feck 2014-02-26 00:54:11 UTC

If you can provide the information requested in comment #1, please add it.

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2014-03-12 22:00:54 UTC

To further investigate this issue, KDE developers need the information requested in comment #1. If you can provide it, or need help with finding that information, please add a comment.

Comment 4 Jonathan Doman 2014-03-12 22:34:14 UTC

Perhaps AD does not realize you have to press Esc in order to make another selection with the table tool. It differs from the other selection tools and is a bit unintuitive because of this. Taken literally, the steps to reproduce do behave as described.

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2014-04-21 12:16:39 UTC

Understanding you correctly, the documentation about the table selection tool should be improved? Could you propose a sentence or paragraph that needs to be added?

Comment 6 Albert Astals Cid 2014-04-21 13:47:08 UTC

Honestly i don't think adding anything to the manual would help, we are already telling people to press Esc to clean on the tip te tool shows when selected

Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2015-01-17 22:37:31 UTC

Closing as no additional info has been provided. Please feel free to reopen if you can provide it.