Bug 627127 - [Indic] Rendering of Text broken when Copy from Evince and Paste to Text editor (gedit)
Summary: [Indic] Rendering of Text broken when Copy from Evince and Paste to Text edit...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: poppler
Version: 19
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: 627200
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-08-25 07:05 UTC by A S Alam
Modified: 2015-02-17 13:21 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
: 627200 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2015-02-17 13:21:50 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
PDF file with Hindi Text (328.67 KB, application/pdf)
2010-08-25 07:05 UTC, A S Alam
no flags Details
This is pdf file generated in firefox print option (331.23 KB, application/pdf)
2012-07-26 07:11 UTC, Parag Nemade
no flags Details
This is pdf file generated in Chromium print option (296.53 KB, application/pdf)
2012-07-26 07:12 UTC, Parag Nemade
no flags Details

Description A S Alam 2010-08-25 07:05:01 UTC
Created attachment 440846 [details]
PDF file with Hindi Text

Description of problem:
- Rendering of Text broken when Copy from Evince and Paste to Text editor (gedit),

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gedit-2.30.2-1.fc13.x86_64
cairo-1.8.10-1.fc13.x86_64
cairo-1.8.10-1.fc13.i686
pango-1.28.0-1.fc13.x86_64
pango-1.28.0-1.fc13.i686
evince-2.30.3-1.fc13.x86_64

How reproducible:
Everytime

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open attached pdf file
2. try to copy and paste text to any text editor
3. open http://www.bbc.co.uk/hindi/news/2010/08/100825_nuke_bill_govt_vv.shtml and copy paste data from this to text editor
  
Actual results:
Rendering is broken (compare with firefox->gedit copy/paste)

Expected results:
it should be same as print or Text in PDF file.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Marek Kašík 2010-09-10 13:51:26 UTC
Hi,

there are two problems with rendering of the PDF file.

The first one are those question marks instead of letters. These are shown because there is Unicode replacement character 0xfffd instead of normal unicode in the PDF. This is shown as the question mark when copied. It is rendered by poppler correctly because the PDF has embedded font which has the letter but it doesn't index it by Unicode so it is not possible to get Unicode value of it when copying the text.
So, this problem is caused by the PDF itself.

The second problem are those dotted circles. These are shown because poppler evaluate distance of two consecutive letters as too high and insert space between them. In the case of two letters which should be combined somehow it shows the circle in the place where it misses something.
This is hard to fix because the fix (changing of constants) could worsen the behaviour for other PDFs.

Regards

Marek

Comment 2 Marek Kašík 2010-09-15 12:42:00 UTC
Another problem I see with the PDF is that some letters are in wrong order. For example वि is combination of व and ि which should be ordered व ि resulting in वि. But in the PDF they are ordered in this way ि व, resulting in िव.
This is a problem of the PDF itself.

Marek

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Comment 4 Pravin Satpute 2011-06-02 05:48:18 UTC
still exists in poppler-0.16.5-1.fc15.x86_64

Yes, problem happen where conjuncts and reordering of characters is happening.
pdf is image format, any chance of getting storage data in copy?

since even in display we see different but in get store in order we type/enter it.

if we can get storage in copy it will surely get solve.

Comment 5 A S Alam 2011-06-07 10:50:41 UTC
it is exist in fedora 15

Comment 6 A S Alam 2011-08-19 06:56:08 UTC
continue with Fedora 16.
---
gedit-3.1.3-2.fc16.x86_64
pango-1.29.3-2.fc16.x86_64
cairo-1.10.2-4.fc16.x86_64
evince-3.1.2-2.fc16.x86_64
poppler-0.17.0-2.fc16.x86_64
---

Comment 7 Akira TAGOH 2012-06-26 07:23:57 UTC
Hmm, reading comment#1 and comment#2. I don't know how that pdf was generated, if it's not something with our applications, it sounds like fixing viewer or rendering library is wrong, because of the malformed pdf.

For instance, it may be a good idea to test on, say acroread. if it doesn't work on even it, it may be not a bug. please try.

Comment 8 Parag Nemade 2012-07-26 07:10:10 UTC
Update from F17 testing

If you open given URL in firefox and print it to PDF and try to copy and paste in gedit, it fails.

If you open given URL in Chromium browser and print it to PDF and try to copy and paste in gedit, it fails. Actually text selection also did not select all the text.

Comment 9 Parag Nemade 2012-07-26 07:11:30 UTC
Created attachment 600445 [details]
This is pdf file generated in firefox print option

Comment 10 Parag Nemade 2012-07-26 07:12:13 UTC
Created attachment 600446 [details]
This is pdf file generated in Chromium print option

Comment 11 A S Alam 2012-12-13 06:47:11 UTC
let me confirm once

Comment 12 Parag Nemade 2013-01-17 04:03:44 UTC
looks this is still present in f18

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Comment 15 Pravin Satpute 2013-07-05 08:44:32 UTC
This bug is still present. Just wondering what will be the ideal fix for it?

I am going to improve Lohit fonts glyph name, so it will be represented nicely in PDF https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=981475


moving to Fedora 19

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