[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 7772] New: Evince Find misses certain words in PDF documents

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7772          
     
           Summary: Evince Find misses certain words in PDF documents
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: freedesktop-bugs at nullinfinity.org


This bug is from http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346333 , which I was
asked by Nickolay Shmyrev to file here instead.

Please describe the problem:
The Find facility misses certain words in PDF documents. My guess is that this
is related to ligatures.


Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the LaTeX PDF document http://arxiv.org/pdf/gr-qc/0512076
2. Search for the string "indefinite" on the first page.
3. 


Actual results:
Evince says "0 found on this page"

Expected results:
That Evince actually finds the string "indefinite", which occurs several times
on the first page.


Does this happen every time?
Yes.

Other information:
As I stated above, I'm guessing that the bug is related to the "f-i" ligature
in "indefinite". Evince correctly finds the substring "inde", but not "indef"
or "indefi".

This is with evince 0.5.4, poppler 0.5.3 on Ubuntu Edgy.          
     
     
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