Bug 1364201

Summary: evince does not show letters in selected section of pdf text
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: ingli <tech>
Component: evinceAssignee: Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description ingli 2016-08-04 17:21:22 UTC 
Created attachment 1187591 [details]
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Description of problem:

I have a pdf of a scanned/OCRed text (produced via pdfsandwich through tesseract). When I open the pdf with evince and select a text section, I cannot see the letters. When I do the same with okular, I can still see the letters.


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Steps to Reproduce:
1. open the attached odf file with evince
2. select text

Actual results: cannot see the letters that are selected


Expected results: can see the letters


Additional info:
I do not think this is an issue of pdfsandwich - but here is a link to this mechanism. http://www.tobias-elze.de/pdfsandwich/
Comment 1 ingli 2016-08-04 17:22:59 UTC 
Created attachment 1187592 [details]
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sorry, the other file is the pdf
Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2016-08-05 12:40:28 UTC 
Hi,

this is an issue in the PDF file. It contains a font which doesn't have any usable glyphs (they named it GlyphLessFont). It has only .notdef and .null replacements (the squares). Evince uses the .notdef glyph if there is no glyph for the character. The reason that Okular highlight the text is because it does it in the image not as a regular text as evince does.

Regards

Marek