1559648 - pdf select word no right

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P3)

Description

[zsytssk]

Attachment: 20190616075206.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

Steps to reproduce:

open pdf, select text

Actual results:

the firefox highlight text is not really selected text

Expected results:

highlight selected text

Comment 1

[Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro]]

I saw the selection problem also by disabling WebRender.

Comment 2

[Sotaro Ikeda [:sotaro]]

It might be better to be checked by PDF Viewer at first.

Comment 3

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The priority flag is not set for this bug.
:bdahl, could you have a look please?

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Comment 4

[jscher2000]

It's possible the transparent text layer is not properly aligned with the background canvas in that PDF. You can use right-click > Inspect Element on text in the PDF, then in the right pane (Rules), look for a rule that starts with:

.textLayer > span {
    color: transparent;

Uncheck the color rule and a light gray text layer should become visible. How's the alignment with the background? If you have an example PDF where it is very off, that would be worth a look.

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However, perhaps it could be a glitch in the extension API. What extension is that? I'm assuming it creates a right-click context menu option.

Extensions cannot read directly from the page in the built in pdf.js viewer because they are treated as privileged pages. Instead, the extension's menu click handler receives various information including a selectionText property: https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/menus/OnClickData

So possibly the error relates to how the selectionText is derived rather than whether the selection shown in the viewer matches the actual selection, if that makes any sense. It would be useful to take a look at the extension and see what it is doing to know whether that is relevant.

Comment 5

[Kenan]

Does this bug still exist? Could you provide a sample pdf, which shows this behaviour?

I wasn't able to reproduce it with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0 // 20211210215852

Comment 6

[Kenan]

Does this bug still exist? Could you provide a sample pdf, which shows this behaviour?

I wasn't able to reproduce it with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0 // 20211210215852

Comment 7

[Kenan]

I assume this is a duplicate or related to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903877

As we do not have the original pdf it's hard to say.

Should we close it as incomplete?

Comment 8

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

Yeah let's close it as incomplete. Please reopen if you can still reproduce and you can provide the PDF.