Bug 14592

Summary:	displays garbage in the selection
Product:	Sisyphus	Reporter:	Ivan Zakharyaschev <imz>
Component:	evince	Assignee:	Valery Inozemtsev <shrek>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	qa-sisyphus
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P2	CC:	aris, lav, msp, shakirov, shrek, sin
Version:	unstable
Hardware:	all
OS:	Linux

Description Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-02-20 21:56:05 MSK

evince-2.21.1-alt1
libpoppler-0.6.3-alt1
libcairo-1.4.10-alt1

Steps to Reproduce:
1. evince http://learn-gs.org/library/etc/1-4-whorf.pdf
2. select some words, for example, the tile: "THE RELATION"
3.
Actual Results:  
a sequence of "~" is seen in the selected region, no letters. 

("Internally", the selection works fine: you can test it by pasting the
selection to another application, you'll get the correct words.)

Expected Results:  
The letters are seen.

Comment 1 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-02-21 16:57:54 MSK

In some files, the letters are correctly displayed when selected: e.g.,
/usr/share/doc/wordnet/pdf/lexnames.5.pdf from wordnet-2.1-alt2.

Comment 2 Ivan Zakharyaschev 2008-02-21 17:04:25 MSK

Now I started to understand that this problem has no very good solution.
Probably, this is so in http://learn-gs.org/library/etc/1-4-whorf.pdf as it is
because it is a scanned paper (an image) with added words. So, there are no
fonts inside, so they can't be properly displayed.

So it's rather a feature request: in such cases not to show the "~"s instead of
the text but to show the selected text in a default font or to show the image
and indicate that a real text has been selected (say, by showing the selected
text in a "tooltip").

Comment 3 Lenar Shakirov 2010-09-27 17:13:13 MSD

http://learn-gs.org/library/etc/1-4-whorf.pdf не доступен, не удается проверить на новой версии evince

Comment 4 Lenar Shakirov 2010-09-28 18:06:28 MSD

Приложите, пожалуйста, pdf'ку, на которой проявляется бага