Ticket #98 (new enhancement)

Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 2 years ago

Make it possible to select columns for copy & paste

Reported by: jojo Owned by: eros2
Priority: major Milestone: RC
Component: Plugin: PDF Version: 1.0 Beta 3
Keywords: Cc:
Blocking: Blocked By:

Description

It would be desirable to be able to select columns for copy & paste. Right now, text is selected per line, and ignores possible layout of the document.

Change History

Changed 2 years ago by eros2

Implementing this ticket is problematic, as poppler library doesn't have such features. Evince users has the same problem with selection - http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325189

Bug opened for poppler - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4006

I hope this will be fixed/improved, poppler developers have in TODO:

"Investigate better (that is, normal) text selection"

http://webcvs.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/TODO?view=markup

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