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+<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
+ type="topic" style="task"
+ id="textselection">
+
+ <info>
+ <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="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/>
+ <credit type="author">
+ <name>Phil Bull</name>
+ <email>[email protected]</email>
+ </credit>
+ <license>
+ <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p>
+ </license>
+
+ </info>
+
+<title>Why didn't the text I selected copy properly?</title>
+
+
+<p>
+If you highlight and copy text from a document using Atril 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>
+
+
+ <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>
+
+ <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 (like <app>pluma</app>) may minimize the problem.
+ </p>
+
+</page>