Thanks for the regression. The problem here is that "bold:" has two fonts since "bold" is italicised and ":" not, so before the patch, "bold:" is a TextWord and pdftotext get the text right, but drawing the selection is bad since the selected ":" would be drawn italicised. After the patch, "bold:" gets splitted up into "bold" and ":" so it gets drawn correctly when selected, but you have the regression you pointed out. So, I believe I am stuck with this choice:
a). I could either allow more than one font on a TextWord, and adapt the code that draws the TextWord to use that fact, so the selected ":" does not get transform to a italicised ":" when drawing it. b) or I could fix the TextDumper to be aware of the fact in some cases there is no space between two TextWord. c) Do you have another way? I think I want to take approach a) even if it could more complicated, but approach b) seems that it could break more things that it would fix... thinking that when doing selection by words would not work at all. What do you think? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39890 Title: characters change when selecting text Status in Poppler: Confirmed Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: I have problems with the following pdf: www.lacim.uqam.ca/~plouffe/OEIS/citations/MAS-R9821.pdf When marking text some characters change. This happens on many places in this pdf-file. To reproduce the bug just mark some random places in the pdf. In some places the text disappears. In some the characters change totally. In others the italics is removed. I use the latest update of dapper. Evince 0.5.2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/39890/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
