Bug 484455

Summary: Multi-line text selection in PDFs broken
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: e.insafutdinov
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 24.02.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: screencast

Description e.insafutdinov 2024-03-25 14:42:05 UTC 
Created attachment 167740 [details]
screencast

SUMMARY
When selecting text across multiple lines it is sometimes not possible to make the end point of the selection be to the left of the starting point if the end point is on the line below. See the screencast in the attachement demonstrating the bug. The PDF in this example can be found here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.03660.pdf

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a PDF document in Okular
2. perform text selection across multiple lines


OBSERVED RESULT
See attached screencast

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: OpenSUSE Tumbleweed 20240321
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:  6.0.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.0.0
Qt Version:  6.6.2
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2024-03-25 16:11:53 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482249 ***