Bug 205774 - okular mis-copies(in wrong order) text from tables in pdf
Summary: okular mis-copies(in wrong order) text from tables in pdf
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.9
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2009-08-31 12:16 UTC by Parameshwara Bhat
Modified: 2011-12-20 19:04 UTC (History)
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Description Parameshwara Bhat 2009-08-31 12:16:14 UTC 
Version:           0.9 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0) "release 158", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1)
Compiler:          gcc
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.29-0.1-default

When text in table in a pdf is copied in either mode,the order of text is random and some text is lost and the separation between text is also got wrong.(I am bassing on OpenOffice behaviour)

The same text copied in kpdf works fine(as expected) with OpenOffice.

this bug may be related to bug 184399.
Comment 1 jordonwii 2011-12-20 03:44:21 UTC 
I believe this is a duplicate of bug 168953 .
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2011-12-20 19:03:50 UTC 
I'm marking this as fixed, Okular 4.8 will include a new text layouting algorithm and it will also include a "Copy text from table" mode, so you'll be able to make sure the text extraction works fine.
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2011-12-20 19:04:32 UTC 
Forgot to say that if after updating to KDE 4.8 you don't get the behaviour you expected please reopen the bug.