id="textselection">
<info>
- <link type="guide" xref="index#problems"/>
+ <link type="guide" xref="index#faq"/>
<desc>When you copy text, the text that is pasted might be different from what you had selected.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="2.30.3" version="0.1" date="2010-07-26" status="review"/>
</credit>
<license>
<p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
- </license>
+ </license>
</info>
<p>
-If you highlight and copy text from a document using <app>Evince Document Viewer</app> and then paste it into another
+If you highlight and copy text from a document using <app>Evince</app> and then paste it into another
application, the formatting may alter. It may also contain different characters than the original selection. This often happens when copying text from a PDF document with multiple columns.
</p>
-<note>
+
<p>
This problem happens because of how some document formats handle text.
The actual text in the document is stored differently from the way it is
displayed. This may result in a copy that does not appear as expected.
</p>
-</note>
-<note style="tip">
<p>
Unfortunately, there is no real way of fixing this problem. Copying
- less text at a time, or copying the text into a text editor may minimise the problem. You can locate a text editor by clicking: </p>
-<list>
- <item>
- <p>
- <guiseq><gui>Applications</gui><gui>Accessories</gui><gui>gedit Text Editor</gui></guiseq>.
+ less text at a time, or copying the text into a text editor may minimise the problem. You can locate a text editor by clicking <guiseq><gui>Applications</gui><gui>Accessories</gui><gui>gedit Text Editor</gui></guiseq>.
</p>
- </item>
-</list>
-</note>
</page>