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Re:Firefox 80 by bobcostas55 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:48PM (#24273961)
It can't even copy paste normal text properly (the bug has been there for 8 years now: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=810636). Line breaks are ignored and words are just smushed together instead. Ever since I switched to FF it has been my biggest annoyance, on Chrome this stuff just works.

The best alternative on windows is PDF-XChange, fairly obscure but extremely feature-rich.

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Re:Firefox 80 by kevin_thibedeau on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:24PM (#24274364)
This is a hard problem. Unflowing text requires determining where the next line is and possibly removing optional hyphenation. PDF only deals with one line spans of text at best. Throw in super and subscripts or inline graphics and it becomes nontrivial.
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Re:Firefox 80 by int_19h on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @06:05PM (#24276749)
It's not trivial, but as the bug report points out, Adobe Reader can handle it.
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Re:Firefox 80 by foofoo55 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @02:44PM (#24274591)
Another vote for PDF-XChange. It's very good at selecting text and annotating a PDF. Plus it has excellent printing features.
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