Bug#745412: evince-gtk: selected text is a solid black box, renders text unreadable

Mon Apr 11 00:37:20 UTC 2016

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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 02:52:39PM +0200, twied wrote:
> when selecting text in evince,
> IT SHOULD: highlight the selected text, i. e. by inverting the text and
> background colors.
> IT DOES: appear just as black box.

Are these PDF documents?  This looks like a problem that was fixed in
poppler 0.21.3 (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=54526).
Please confirm if you still have this problem.  If you do, please
provide your libpoppler version and a PDF so we can reproduce it.