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evince shows unnecesary rectangles as selected during text selection

Bug #185284 reported by mspanc
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Poppler
Invalid
Medium
poppler (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

I attach the video and testfile that shows the problem.

Ubuntu 7.10 on Intel DualCore 64bit.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 23 09:24:31 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.20.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/evince /tmp/getdocument.aspx
ProcCwd: /home/marcin
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=pl_PL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux marcin 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 21:45:15 GMT 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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mspanc (mspanc) wrote :
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mspanc (mspanc) wrote :
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mspanc (mspanc) wrote :

Please look also at the text flickering once on the bottom of the page.

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mspanc (mspanc) wrote :

It's the same without desktop effects.

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TerryG (tgalati4) wrote :

Thanks for your bug submission. Great screen capture. This bug may be related to the highlight bug where extra characters show up in selected text. Marked as Confirmed.

Changed in evince:
status: New → Confirmed
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In , Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/185284

While doing a selection evince shows an unnecesary rectangle

pdf:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11492551/test.pdf

screencast:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/11492554/out.ogg

Thanks!,

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

not an evince bug, more like poppler, re assigning, will look upstream, thanks.

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

I've sent this upstream at: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16602 ; thanks for reporting.

Changed in poppler:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Changed in poppler:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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mspanc (mspanc) wrote :

still exists in 9.04

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Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Medium → Unknown
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Changed in poppler:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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mspanc (mspanc) wrote :

Doesn't exist in 12.04

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penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

Not reproducible in Trusty.

Changed in poppler (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Invalid
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In , penalvch (penalvch) wrote :

As per https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/185284/comments/10 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/185284/comments/11 .

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Changed in poppler:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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