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Selecting and copying issue #6658

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rugk opened this issue Nov 18, 2015 · 2 comments
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Selecting and copying issue #6658

rugk opened this issue Nov 18, 2015 · 2 comments

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@rugk
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rugk commented Nov 18, 2015

example: https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/82/slides/rtcweb-13.pdf (take side 2)

  1. When copying the normal text everything works (expect that some characters like { and � seem to be inserted in some places).
    If I copy the site two it looks like this:
Trust Model
�
Browser acts as the
Trusted Computing Base
(TCB)
{
Only piece of the system user can really trust
{
Job is to enforce user's desired security policies
�
Authenticated entities
{
Identity is checked by the browser (sometimes transitively)
�
Unauthenticated entities
{
Random other network elements who send and receive tra�
  1. Selecting the whole site is also not really possible:
    markmore

Tested with Firefox 42

@Snuffleupagus
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expect that some characters like { and � seem to be inserted in some places

This part is caused by the PDF itself, and not PDF.js, since copy-paste from Adobe Reader produces the exact same characters. (The only difference being that the PDF.js copy-paste result contains a number of unwanted extra line-breaks.)

@Snuffleupagus
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When copying the normal text everything works (expect that some characters like { and � seem to be inserted in some places).

This was fixed by PR #7550.

Selecting the whole site is also not really possible:

This was fixed by PR #7879.

Closing, since all the points reported above should now have been fixed.

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