Closed Bug 777387 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Find in Page not working in some PDFs

Categories

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
PDF Viewer
Version:
16 Branch
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 748936

People

(Reporter: binarysplit, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [pdfjs-c-feature][pdfjs-d-text-search]) 

Pressing Ctrl+F and typing into the find-in-page bar doesn't work in the PDF Viewer in some PDFs. An example PDF is at: http://www.openexr.com/TechnicalIntroduction.pdf (2.3MB), try typing "technical", which should clearly match the title on the first page. 

This seems to be caused by almost every letter in the document being in a discrete <div> element.
Depends on: 748936
Whiteboard: [pdfjs-c-feature][pdfjs-d-text-search]
Confirmed. 

Searching works on Chrome and Adobe Reader.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
The PDF contains the text in this kind of format:

	11	showText	
	12	moveText	8.5, 0
	13	showText	
	14	moveText	8.9, 0
	15	showText	
	16	moveText	8.9, 0
	17	showText	

that's why there is one div for each letter. To solve this, the text runs need to be merged in some way.
I can confirm the issue I originally reported is fixed in Aurora 19.0a2 (2013-01-07). 

Yury Delendik was correct in saying this was a duplicate of 748936, which was resolved by 801280.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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