Closed Bug 1663416 Opened 5 years ago Closed 4 years ago

pdf viewer marking text

Categories

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
PDF Viewer
Version:
78 Branch
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
95 Branch

People

(Reporter: martin.bildermann, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [pdfjs-c-ux][pdfjs-d-text-selection])

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

I marked a word or short phrase in the PDF Viewer and copied it / used it in Google search context menue.

Actual results:

The text gets highlighted in pink. However not the highlighted text get copied but the text in the line right above the highlighted word/phrase.

Expected results:

The marked/highlighted phrase should be copied.

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Component: Untriaged → PDF Viewer

Please link to a testcase.

Flags: needinfo?(martin.bildermann)

(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #2)

Please link to a testcase.

First I thought this bug applies to all PDFs. Now I see it's not the case.
Finally I recovered the PDF where I noticed the "malfunction". It's a PDF with a rather small font.
In another PDF with larger font I wasn't able to reproduce the bug.
http://www.toxcenter.org/stoff-infos/p/petroleum.pdf

Flags: needinfo?(martin.bildermann)
Severity: -- → S3
Whiteboard: [pdfjs-c-ux][pdfjs-d-text-selection]
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Target Milestone: --- → 95 Branch
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