Bug 338563

Summary:	rotated text (90 deg counter-clockwise) copied backwards
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Yury <yury.tarasievich>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, null
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Slackware
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.0690
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Yury 2014-08-26 08:47:59 UTC

If copying the text fragment from the PDF, and if the text in PDF is rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise, the clipboard contains the text fragment spelled backwards. So, the "arXiv:1203.0690v1" copied from the left margin of page 1 in the PDF at demo URL ends up as "1v0960.3021:viXra" after paste.

Previously (kde 4.5.5, slackware 13.37/amd64) this function worked correctly, with that same file, too.

The version is 0.16.5, kde 4.10.5, packed with slackware 14.1/amd64.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-08-26 20:28:03 UTC

attach a such file

Comment 2 Yury 2014-08-26 20:57:01 UTC

An example PDF is at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1203.0690, it is open access file.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-08-26 21:00:25 UTC

Correct. I don't see this being fixed soon (at least from my side)

Comment 4 Yury 2014-08-27 05:49:03 UTC

How did it even get to be broken, in the first place?
This functionality worked okay for years, with different versions of KDE 4, different series, even (kpdf in KDE 3).

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2014-08-27 17:29:47 UTC

Because we fixed more important stuff. You're free to have a look at the code and revert the changes you think are not important for you.

Comment 6 null 2017-11-24 22:23:26 UTC

FWIW, this is still a problem as of KDE Applications 17.11.80 and Poppler 0.61.

See also Bug 300400, where currently you have to enter the search term backwards.

Comment 7 Laura David Hurka 2020-09-05 10:53:05 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 407133 ***