Bug 276581 - PDF text selection broken for multiple column files
Summary: PDF text selection broken for multiple column files
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.12.2
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2011-06-27 01:25 UTC by Jim
Modified: 2011-06-27 07:38 UTC (History)
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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 Pino Toscano 2011-06-27 07:38:09 UTC 
Reported already (bug #276580).