Bug#481887: evince: text selecting/highlighting issues

[Sven Arvidsson]

On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 03:02 -0700, Karl Chen wrote:
> Package: evince
> Version: 2.20.2-1+b1
> Severity: minor
> 
> 
> Sample 1:
> 
> This PDF: 
>     http://www.tim-taylor.com/papers/thesis/thesis.pdf [5 MB]
> 
> renders fine with Evince.  However, when I select text with
> the mouse, I see gibberish text in the highlighted region,
> in a different font (some kind of sans serif).  The
> gibberish seems to be the original text where each
> character's encoding value is 2 less than it should be,
> e.g. "Copy" shows up as "Anmw", with each character
> positioned where the original was, so that a lot of
> characters overlap each other since the font and characters
> are different.  This occurs when selecting text of any font
> in this document.

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report and the detailed explanation. I have forwarded
it to the upstream developers. See
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439070

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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