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Evince cannot select one column in a two column PDF

Submitted by Christopher M. Penalver

Assigned to poppler-bugs

Link to original bug (#87427)

Description

  1. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04

  2. apt-cache policy libpoppler[0-9] libpoppler47: Installed: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 Candidate: 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 Version table: *** 0.28.1-1ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

  1. What is expected to happen via https://launchpadlibrarian.net/53980611/Example.pdf is one is able to highlight one column at a time, just like in Adobe Reader.

  2. What happens instead is it highlights both columns at a time.

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