Bug 484455 - Multi-line text selection in PDFs broken
Summary: Multi-line text selection in PDFs broken
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 482249
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 24.02.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2024-03-25 14:42 UTC by e.insafutdinov
Modified: 2024-03-25 16:11 UTC (History)
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Description e.insafutdinov 2024-03-25 14:42:05 UTC 
Created attachment 167740 [details]
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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 ***