1194819 - PDF text selection fails to detect word boundaries on wkhtmltopdf-generated PDFs

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[metagriffin]

Attachment: testfile.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:40.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/40.0
Build ID: 20150807094952

Steps to reproduce:

open the attached file (testfile.pdf), which was generated using the "wkhtmltopdf" utility, using the built-in firefox PDF previewer (pdf.js).
double-click on a word, e.g. "Test".
then explicitly select the entire word.
copy the text and paste it into a text editor, e.g. emacs.


Actual results:

on double-click, only the letter directly below the mouse pointer is selected.
on paste of the explicitly selected word, each letter is pasted on its own line, e.g.
T
e
s
t


Expected results:

on double-click, the entire word should have been selected (as it does with other PDFs).
on paste, the word should have remained a word instead of letters on separate lines.

Comment 1

[metagriffin]

note that other PDF viewers, such as okular, do not have this problem

Comment 2

[Yury Delendik (:yury)]

It shall be fixed by https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/pull/6590