[Okular-devel] [Bug 212458] wrong algorithm used by the copy-to-clipboard selection tool

[Pino Toscano]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212458


Pino Toscano <pino at kde.org> changed:

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             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |DUPLICATE




--- Comment #7 from Pino Toscano <pino kde org>  2009-10-31 10:52:12 ---
(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > The generic "block" selection (the only one available in KPDF) is still there. 
> 
> But it doesn't seem enabled in the GUI. The "selection tool" in okular behaves
> in a different way respect the "select tool" in kpdf.

Now I see; although, the PDF libraries used by KPDF and Okular are different in
some extend, and Okular uses the Poppler library.

> > ie the text information in the document are not in the "logical" order for
> > reading, so there must text analysis for solving this "problem". (Also note
> > that your testcase is a perfect example of what would be eventually
> > considered as a two-column text flow.)
> 
> Does kpdf do some logical analysis on the text?

No.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168953 ***

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