Still occurring on Ubuntu 16.04 "Xenial Xerus". The same problem also occurs when selecting part of the text with the mouse.
evince 3.18.2-1ubuntu4 poppler 0.41.0-0ubuntu1.1 ** Tags added: xenial -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/439502 Title: Ctrl+a does not select all of the text Status in poppler package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: evince I have opened a PDF file, I Pressed Ctrl + A. I Expected that all of the text would be selected. But it did not, it only selected a few characters. It almost looks like its picking random characters. please look at: http://frankkie.nl/a/evince/ for the pdf-document and a screenshot. Ubuntu 9.04 Evince 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince Package: evince 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: evince Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/439502/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
