On Thu, 2026-02-05 at 20:55 -0600, David Wright wrote:
On Thu 05 Feb 2026 at 13:33:13 (-0800), Van Snyder wrote:
Is anybody maintaining Okular? The search function is broken. It
lands
on the wrong page. The search function works correctly in evince,
but
Okular has many features I prefer, such as a "back" button.
I thought someone else had this problem recently, but then realised
it was you. Does this happen with all PDFs or only some, and does
every search in a given PDF have this problem. Are the error offsets
random or systematic. Have you reported it?
I don't remember whether I reported it.
Every PDF, every search.
I meant "I never had reason to search for a single letter."
It works for a while for a single letter, or short strings, and even sometimes for an entire word, but eventually gets lost.
If the search item is on the same page as one previously found, it
still shows the correct page. Otherwise, I can frequently find the
search item within the next three or four pages, but usually not on the
one displayed after the search. I give uip looking for it after three
or four pages.
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