[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 3188] Pasting tables cells in strange order

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3188


Arand Nash <ienorand at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #48 from Arand Nash <ienorand at gmail.com>  2010-02-19 12:16:04 PST ---
I've built and tested the patches on poppler_0.12.0-0ubuntu2.1 and it is
definitely a HUGE improvement, simply the ability to select text in columns
makes it now useful all of a sudden, many thanks to Brian and Marek for looking
into this!
(deb packages for ubuntu 9.10 are available from 
https://launchpad.net/~arand/+archive/poppler, (nil safety included))

There are however still some minor issues,

For testing purposes I've been using these two papers:

http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw/bitstream/246246/164287/1/50.pdf
http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-16-24-19724 (link to
fulltext pdf available.)

On the first Yuh-Sien SUN et. al. paper there is the equation on the start of
page 2, as well as the combined equation/Fig. 7. on page 4; both does messy
things to selection.

On the second Trefor Sloanes et. al. paper the references on page 1 are a bit
odd, as the numbers is treated as a separate column when selecting, whereas on
page 2 they are not (second behavior is preferred I would say).
Also equation (3) page 3 does a lot of messy things to selection of it, and
most of the text following on that page as well.

In fact equations seems to mess with selection as a general rule, which isn't
very surprising I guess..

If not wanting to sit down and design them, I would say scientific papers makes
rather good material for testing, due to their use of columns, diagrams with
text, equations, reference lists, etc. and also due to availability e.g.
opticsinfobase.org should be a fairly huge supply for test docs...

Once again, thanks! This makes a huge difference when working with
referencing/quoting on columned pdfs.


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