It's a poppler issue, upstream report https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/310
** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues #310 https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/310 ** Package changed: evince (Ubuntu) => poppler (Ubuntu) ** Also affects: poppler via https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/310 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- 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/768264 Title: Unable to copy first quote Status in Evince: Fix Released Status in Poppler: New Status in poppler package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Upstream URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/248 Binary package hint: evince 1) lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu Vivid Vervet (development branch) Release: 15.04 2) apt-cache policy evince evince: Installed: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.14.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ vivid/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) What is expected to happen when one copies the first paragraph of the second page of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/768264/+attachment/4282570/+files/1311004.pdf it does so verbatim, just like Adobe Reader. 4) What happens instead is the first comma is not highlightable. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04 Package: evince 2.32.0-0ubuntu12 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Apr 21 13:18:34 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate i386 (20100419.1) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_DE:en LANG=de_DE.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2 SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-11 (9 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/768264/+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