On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 7:32 AM, manu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > one disturbing limitation of evince for me is that it cannot properly > extract text when a document is made of 2 columns. For example, when i > select some text in one column, it is also selected in the other column... > Acrobat reader can do it, so there are no missing informations in these pdf > files. > I am currently using evince 2.22.2, please excuse me if this problem is > resolved in more recent version. >
I've actually noticed this (lately?) too, I thought evince used to handle it better.. kpdf has an interesting way to do selection via a box and then copy that to the clipboard. Evince probably has a way or could have a way for two column support to work properly... here is a bug report that I found regarding this issue: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325189 Cheers, Todd > sincerely, > LEM > > _______________________________________________ > Evince-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list > > -- Todd Deshane http://todddeshane.net check out our book: http://runningxen.com _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
