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In Okular, as soon as I highlight (you get the tool by pressing F6 and then 4) the text, the whole text of the page disappears. However, this happens only on some PDFs.

I googled to find a fix for this but I found nothing. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance!

The following GIF may help you to see my problem:

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EDIT: I added another GIF, which shows the problem in more detail:

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  • By highlighting, do you mean selecting text using the "Text Selection Tool"? I found the same pdf and, at least with the Text Selection Tool, I don't see anything disappearing. I have okular 4.16 and plasma 5.8.7 on 16.04 (http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/backports). – DK Bose Jun 26 '17 at 16:34
  • It's the tool you get, when you press F6 and then the number 4. It will highlight the text. I think, it's not the text selection tool, since you can see it afterwards yellow. It's a text marker. – Metaphysiker Jun 26 '17 at 16:42
  • I'll try your F6, 4 route. And it does exactly what you describe. Maybe you could file a bug. You may want to ask at https://forum.kde.org/index.php in case such a bug has already been filed. – DK Bose Jun 26 '17 at 16:43
  • The weird thing is, it only happens for some PDFs. Are there maybe some settings, which could cause such behaviour? – Metaphysiker Jun 27 '17 at 07:35

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Workaround:

The problem is described here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360201

A solution is proposed by azzamsa, which worked for me:

azzamsa 2016-03-11 10:06:03 UTC

[SOLVED]

prolem solved using pdfchain, no any configuration needed, just using default configuration from pdfchain, save as it somewhere, and I can add the annotation, okular works well for this pdf output from pdfchain, okular save the xml correctly, ( not like before, the xml are not written correctly)

update1 : select "repair document" and content list (bookmar list) will preserved.

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