[poppler] recent defect with page.get_text

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dissabte, 1 d'octubre de 2011, alex bodnaru vàreu escriure:
> On 09/28/2011 04:12 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> Brian any chance you can have a look at this regression?
> hello albert, brian, other friends,
> 
> i would happily collaborate to check the rtl issues once will brian spare
> some time and show the reason of his patch.
> 
> but since this patch of brian is dealing with text selection, we could
> already allow page_get_text to directly invoke TextPage::getText that
> returns the text of the entire page as expected, rather than invoking
> poppler_page_get_selected_text, as it currently does, but wrong in my case,
> at least.
> 
> here's a patch to head in this spirit. could you consider applying it?

There people interested in this code simply refuses to read HTML mail. It is 
getting pretty tiring to ask you to do something as simple as stop sending 
HTML mail and you not doing it. So please fix your email client to send 
plaintext mail only or at least a plaintext version along with the HTML 
version.

> 
> thanks in advance,
> alex
> 
> n.b. i dare ask you to consider making a new 0.16.x release too. debian
> maintainers prefer stable releases :) .

That won't happen, 0.16 is a dead branch now.

Albert