Closed Bug 777387 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 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: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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