This happens on not-properly-produced .pdf files, with custom encodings but without cmap (toUnicode) entries. Unfortunately, there are a lot of them out there!
When selecting text, evince (erroneously) displays the characters that will be copied to the clipboard, instead of the original glyphs. Explanation: There is a PDF specification "feature", where one can declare that the character 'A' maps to the glyph 'B'. So if 'A' is written in a pdf text object, it displays as 'B' but it gets copied as 'A'! My English is poor, so I made a ***minimal*** .pdf that reproduces this bug. If you open it in Evince and select all the text, the line that contains BCDΓ should display ABC<display artifact> when selected! Kind regards, Alkis Georgopoulos ** Attachment added: "evincebug.pdf" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/16578432/evincebug.pdf -- characters change when selecting text https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/39890 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
