On Fri, 2026-02-06 at 22:14 -0600, David Wright wrote: > On Thu 05 Feb 2026 at 19:49:07 (-0800), Van Snyder wrote: > > On Thu, 2026-02-05 at 20:55 -0600, David Wright wrote: > > > On Thu 05 Feb 2026 at 13:33:13 (-0800), Van Snyder wrote: > > > > Is anybody maintaining Okular? The search function is broken. > > > > It > > > > lands > > > > on the wrong page. The search function works correctly in > > > > evince, > > > > but > > > > Okular has many features I prefer, such as a "back" button. > > > > > > I thought someone else had this problem recently, but then > > > realised > > > it was you. Does this happen with all PDFs or only some, and does > > > every search in a given PDF have this problem. Are the error > > > offsets > > > random or systematic. Have you reported it? > > > > I don't remember whether I reported it. > > Apparently you did, #1115650. > > > Every PDF, every search. > > Every PDF from any source? Downloaded? Self-generated? With what > software?
Every one that I've tried fails. Some are downloaded. The fonts and layouts in some downloaded ones look like Word. Mine are LaTeX (pdflatex, not latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf) and I know some I download are from LaTeX. > Searching for a single letter? Always a word or phrase or number. Never a single letter or digit. > Can you cut and paste lines from these failing PDFs into an editor > buffer? > Does the pasted text look correct? Copy and paste works correctly. > Presumably all these PDFs are searchable in viewers like xpdf, > evince, > zathura, etc, are they? Searches work correctly in evince. I haven't tried xpdf lately, and I don't have zathura. > Cheers, > David. >
