You've got to be careful here.  There is another bug that I filed,
incorrectly classified as a duplicate, that has related but in some ways
opposite behavior.  (I'm traveling and writing this from a hotel room,
and it is impossible for me to look up the bug number right now.)  In
that bug the text is a very large number of equal-sized words set in a
fixed width font.  Thus they appear to be in columns, but in reality is
is not column data.  Yet it behaves a bit like column data.  If I recall
correctly the value that should be in the upper right corner is
replaced, in the paste, by the value that displayed directly above it.
This makes me think that it perhaps recognizes column stuff from the
display layout instead of the internal representation.

  -- David Jacobson


--- On Tue, 11/10/09, Andres Monroy-Hernandez <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: Andres Monroy-Hernandez <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Bug 33288] Re: Evince doesn't handle columns properly
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 3:25 PM
> ** Description changed:
> 
> -- 
> Evince doesn't handle columns properly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/33288
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> of a duplicate bug.
> 
> Status in Poppler: Confirmed
> Status in “poppler” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
> 
> Bug description:
> When making a multi column selection from a PDF like this:
> 
> http://www.specialist-games.com/mordheim/assets/lrb/1Rules.pdf
> 
> And pasting the result into OpenOffice.org the columns are
> not maintained. The results unusable because the text from
> both columns becomes mixed.
> 
> Please note, this is not a PDF problem, using Adobe Acrobat
> Reader 7.x under Windows does properly copy-paste columned
> text over to OpenOffice.org.
> 
> Regards,
> Pascal de Bruijn
> 
>     
>

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