*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 36747 *** No need to be sorry, we don't expect users to know about software details, and not knowing poppler it's not trivial to figure it's doing the pdf rendering for evince.
The backtrace is usually useful for that though, you can notice than the top function are from "/usr/lib/libpoppler.so.1" so the crash happens to the poppler library -- Crashes when selecting object pdf https://launchpad.net/bugs/58845 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs