[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116284] New: Exported PDF provides invisibly-corrupted text for copy-and-paste

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116284

            Bug ID: 116284
           Summary: Exported PDF provides invisibly-corrupted text for
                    copy-and-paste
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Printing and PDF export
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jim.avera at gmail.com

Description:
The attached .odt file, when converted to pdf, as a strange problem: Certain
areas of text can not be copy-and-pasted correctly.   The copied text is
silently corrupted, causing certain characters to be dropped or duplicated. 
Very strange.






Steps to Reproduce:


1. Open attached "bug.odt" and do File->Export to PDF
   (or open the attached .pdf)

2. Open the .pdf file.  Select the string "critters at example.com" with the
mouse, and then Control-C to copy.

3. Put cursor in a terminal (e.g. gnome-terminal) window.  Control-Shift-V to
paste.


Actual Results:  
Something else is pasted (a corrupted version of the text).

Expected Results:
What is displayed should be copied.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
NOTE: In real life, the problem arises in files which have been modified by
non-LO software (The ODF::lpOD perl library), and seemingly only in tables.   I
have not been able to reproduce it with text entered manually.  The attached
demo file is a cut-down copy of a user directory generated from a database
using a software tool.



User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:58.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/58.0

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