Bug 109386 – evince doesnt show selected text

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description vadik56 2005-10-15 11:51:56 UTC]

When I select text with a mouse some words do not show up in the selected text.
If I scroll away from text then back unselected text completely disappears.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open pdf file
2.select some text with mouse
3.scroll down using mousewheel
4.scroll back up to the selected text
Actual Results:  
unselected text disappears and some words in selected text do not show up

Expected Results:  
see all words in the text and selected text should be highlighted

Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.1
3-gentoo-r3 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo-r3 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4     CPU 3.06GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
ccache version 2.3 [enabled]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.20
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env
/usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/alias /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msse -msse2 -mmmx"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acpi alsa apm arts artswrappersuid artworkextra avi berkdb
bitmap-fonts bonobo cdr crypt cups curl directfb directfd divx4linux dts dv dvd
dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd exif fame fbcon firefox foomaticdb fortran
gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile hal howl icc
imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal libg++
libwww live mad maildir matrox mikmod mmx mmxext motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg
mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl
oss pam pcmcia pdflib perl pic png python qmail qt quicktime readline real samba
sdl spell sse sse2 ssl svg svga symlink tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts
type1-fonts unicode usb usepackagedmakefiles vcd vorbis wifi win32codecs x86
xine xml xml2 xmms xprint xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib video_cards_sis
userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 vadik56 2005-10-15 11:53:37 UTC]

Evince 0.4.0
Using poppler 0.4.2 (splash)

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2005-10-15 15:23:50 UTC]

known upstream bug: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318982

[Comment 3 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2006-06-29 13:53:47 UTC]

This works fine for me in 0.5.3-r1.