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Cascading PDF selection? #18172

Closed zyd-n closed 1 month ago

zyd-n commented 1 month ago

I'm not sure how to describe this bug, hence the rather poor title, please see screen recording attached.

PDF: document.pdf

Configuration:

Web browser and its version: Firefox 126.0 (64-bit)
Operating system and its version: Linux/Fedora 40
PDF.js version: 4.1.379
Is a browser extension: no

Steps to reproduce the problem:

Open attached PDF
Select some text

What is the expected behavior? (add screenshot)

Normal selection

What went wrong? (add screenshot)

Selection

See screen recording: pdf-gone-wrong.webm

For reference, poppler backed pdf readers (e.g pdf-tools in emacs, or Evince) handle the selection of this pdf just fine.

Snuffleupagus commented 1 month ago

This is effectively a combination of issue #17561 and #6011.