Bug#755912: evince-gtk: Copy-paste broken for text aligned in columns

[George B.]

Package: evince-gtk
Version: 3.12.1-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

If I have some text like:
----
foo.sh -o bar
foo.sh -o bar
foo.sh -o bar
foo.sh -o bar
----

and I select, copy and paste it somewhere I get:
----
foo.sh
foo.sh
foo.sh
foo.sh
-o
-o
-o
-o
bar
bar
bar
bar
----

I have tested a few PDF viewers and this happens in evince and zathura,
but not in xpdf, qpdfview, or Sumatra PDF (Windows).

I attach source file and 2 PDFs generated by a2x and enscript + ps2pdf.


Best regards,

George

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.14-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages evince-gtk depends on:
ii  evince-common              3.12.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.12.0-1
ii  libc6                      2.19-7
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.16-2
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libevdocument3-4           3.12.1-1
ii  libevview3-3               3.12.1-1
ii  libgail-3-0                3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.30.7-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.40.0-3
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.12.2-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.3-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.3-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  shared-mime-info           1.3-1
ii  zlib1g                     1:1.2.8.dfsg-1

Versions of packages evince-gtk recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.6-1

Versions of packages evince-gtk suggests:
ii  gvfs          1.20.2-1
pn  nautilus      <none>
ii  poppler-data  0.4.6-5
ii  unrar         1:5.0.10-1

-- no debconf information
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