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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - Evince freezes when selecting text from specific pdf documents"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61042#c12">Comment # 12</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - Evince freezes when selecting text from specific pdf documents"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61042">bug 61042</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:gpoo@gnome.org" title="Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo@gnome.org>"> <span class="fn">Germán Poo-Caamaño</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=61042#c11">comment #11</a>)
<span class="quote">> So the problem is not with the patch, but with the fact that for the test
> case, the Text output is completely broken... Just run pdftotext on the test
> case to see what I mean. So the missing glyphs are just because in the "text
> detected" by poppler, there is a space! and since we visit words to render
> selections, it just does not work...
>
> That means that I think that the patch is doing the right thing, and fixing
> the fact that the text in the test case should give us good selections for
> this file.</span >
I do not disagree with you. I am only saying there are two different bugs.
The one related with slowness (and memory) and one related with the glyphs
shown when the text is selected.
This bug is about the former. The latter, I think, is related to
<a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - Can't see selected text with Type3 fonts"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=12980">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12980</a> and/or
<a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW --- - Evince cannot copy text from PDF documents with Computer Modern fonts"
href="show_bug.cgi?id=60243">https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60243</a> (see <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=61042#c4">comment 4</a>).
IMVHO, the patch fixes this particular bug (slowness and memory).</pre>
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