Closed Bug 829686 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Built in PDF viewer is not copy/paste friendly

Categories

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

19 Branch
x86_64
Windows 7
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

()

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 810636

People

(Reporter: scorp1us, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0
Build ID: 20130108132750

Steps to reproduce:

I opened a PDF, selected text and copied, then pasted it into a plain-text program (i.e. notepad) 

Example PDF: 
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr60/nvsr60_03.pdf (first paragraph pasted below)
produced:
Objective—
This
report
presents
final
2009
data
on
U.S.
deaths,
death
rates,
life
expectancy,
infant
mortality,
and
trends
by
selected
characteristics
such
as
age,
sex,
Hispanic
origin,
race,
state
of
residence,
and
cause
of
death.




Actual results:

For one PDF, I got 1 word per line.
Objective—
This
report
presents
final
2009
data
on
U.S.
deaths,
death
rates,
life
expectancy,
infant
mortality,
and
trends
by
selected
characteristics
such
as
age,
sex,
Hispanic
origin,
race,
state
of
residence,
and
cause
of
death.

For another PDF it broke text like this:
five years of experience.
Skilled in Python, TrollTech’s Qt framework
(including
PyQt), Pure MVC, Adobe Flex,
ActionScript
, MXML
and Javascript. Proficient in C++ and Forth.
Also skilled with Blender 3D and basic 3D modeling and rendering concepts.
Some familiarity with HTML5,
PHP, Code Igniter PHP framework
, Struts framework, and SQL
database queries
.
Moderate familiarity with
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and HP

Whereas all text being copied was from continuous text paragraphs. 


Expected results:

The text should have not been broken into lines, unless broken in the document.
Sorry, the paragraph appeared like this in the source material: 
Objective— This report presents final 2009 data on U.S. deaths, death rates, life expectancy, infant mortality, and trends by selected characteristics such as age, sex, Hispanic origin, race, state of residence, and cause of death.
Component: Untriaged → PDF Viewer
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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