I believe the issue is that Evince, when doing copy/paste of text does *not* look at the Tags but instead just uses the content stream (via TextOutputDev or equivalent).
Leonard From: poppler <poppler-boun...@lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Germán Poo-Caamaño <g...@gnome.org> Date: Thursday, June 24, 2021 at 9:49 AM To: poppler@lists.freedesktop.org <poppler@lists.freedesktop.org> Subject: Re: [poppler] Why poppler, which supports tagged PDFs, doesn't recognize some of the tags as a whole? On Thu, 2021-06-24 at 10:44 +0200, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > El dijous, 24 de juny de 2021, a les 7:48:45 (CEST), Denis Bitouzé va > escriure: > > Hi, > > > > the joined `test.pdf` file is properly tagged as you can check it > > by > > loading it at: > > > > ┌──── > > │ > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ngpdf.com%2FloadFile&data=04%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Cef542415b4b744bbb43608d93716a6ef%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637601393451358131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=B2PyymiLJry0%2FuTtFq%2FxKTxv%2Fm7IyCSvskMpv6vyYBI%3D&reserved=0 > > └──── > > > > and then looking at: > > > > ┌──── > > │ > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ngpdf.com%2Feditor%2FeditFile&data=04%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Cef542415b4b744bbb43608d93716a6ef%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637601393451358131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=A5pj0HN%2BIXhlLKJXqHrGPOJiqOa2ecEP4oeTUf6DBLY%3D&reserved=0 > > └──── > > > > You can see each line of the code: > > > > ┌──── > > │ \pdfdict_new:n {l_my_action_dict} > > │ \pdfdict_put:nnn {l_my_action_dict}{Type}{/Action} > > │ \pdfdict_put:nnn {l_my_action_dict}{S}{/URI} > > │ \pdfdict_put:nnn {l_my_action_dict}{URI}{( > > https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latex-project.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Cef542415b4b744bbb43608d93716a6ef%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637601393451358131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=sYehJE%2F61AvsbjEGCLNUrEzGObcp14gQVjix%2Beo11Bg%3D&reserved=0)}<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latex-project.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Cef542415b4b744bbb43608d93716a6ef%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637601393451358131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=sYehJE%2F61AvsbjEGCLNUrEzGObcp14gQVjix%2Beo11Bg%3D&reserved=0)%7d> > > └──── > > > > is a single tag. > > > > Nevertheless this code, if copied e.g. from Evince 3.38.1, is > > pasted not > > as it is and but as: > > That would be a question for the Evince developers (some of them are > on this is i guess so you may still get an answer). > > The fact that poppler has facilities to "see" the contents of tagged > pdf doesn't mean that evince is using them. I am unsure what the report or question is about. Is it about presenting/seeing each tag separately or copying/pasting the test in the tags? If the later, that corresponds to poppler-glib. -- Germán Poo-Caamaño https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcalcifer.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Cef542415b4b744bbb43608d93716a6ef%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637601393451358131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=rCag2kD3rZXh0xRFfGTWNGzL1jKmN8hwXN427188BcE%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list poppler@lists.freedesktop.org https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.freedesktop.org%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fpoppler&data=04%7C01%7Clrosenth%40adobe.com%7Cef542415b4b744bbb43608d93716a6ef%7Cfa7b1b5a7b34438794aed2c178decee1%7C0%7C0%7C637601393451358131%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C2000&sdata=6PjUtzy8Ks8uTdz1RZu3ctqH5eeHzsnxQf%2BgBBcBhLI%3D&reserved=0
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