Bug 276580 - PDF text selection broken for multiple column files
Summary: PDF text selection broken for multiple column files
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 161324
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 0.12.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-06-27 01:25 UTC by Jim
Modified: 2011-06-27 07:36 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In:

Attachments
Add an attachment

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
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 Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun 2011-06-27 02:07:38 UTC 
I think this is a duplicate of the bug 161324
Comment 2 Jim 2011-06-27 02:50:02 UTC 
Yes, it's a duplicate.  The other bug didn't come up in a search for "annotation" or "highlighter", so, I submitted it.  I see okular is listed as using poppler on the poppler site.  Any word on if multi-column format will be supported?
Comment 3 Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman Mamun 2011-06-27 03:01:56 UTC 
Currently a GSOC project is going on for supporting multi-column in both selection and highlighting. I hope, this support can be added soon after the completion of the project.
Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2011-06-27 07:36:50 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 161324 ***