Bug 193234

Summary:	russian text in pdf forms becomes invisible after "hide forms"
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Alexander Potashev <aspotashev>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	akerkunov, alex.serpuxov, artem-terehin, butirsky, ertash, fedya.retunov, g.gmx, luigi.toscano, remenkin, tayinin, tdhj744ra03u, vasda
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/230
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alexander Potashev 2009-05-19 13:14:18 UTC

Version:           0.8.80 (using KDE 4.2.85)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages

1. open PDF with forms
2. click "show forms"
3. write text in Russian into a text input box (you can see the text in it)
4. click "hide forms"

Text in Japanese has the same issue, but English text, however, works.
This might be just a unsuitable font, but I don't know how to change the font.

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2009-05-19 13:18:32 UTC

Could you provide a sample document showing the issue?
Also, which version of the poppler library do you have?

Comment 2 Alexander Potashev 2009-05-19 14:04:32 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Could you provide a sample document showing the issue?
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/79964.pdf
You can, for example, enter "Привет!" ("Hi!")

> Also, which version of the poppler library do you have?
I had 0.10.6, now I updated to 0.10.7, but the problem still exists.

Comment 3 Pino Toscano 2009-05-24 19:56:08 UTC

Poppler problem indeed. When running either Okular or Evince from command-line, it gives
warning: layoutText: cannot convert U+041F
warning: layoutText: cannot convert U+0440
warning: layoutText: cannot convert U+0438
warning: layoutText: cannot convert U+0432
warning: layoutText: cannot convert U+0435
warning: layoutText: cannot convert U+0442
which makes me think there's a bug in Poppler wrt handling of unicode text when drawing PDF forms.

Cold you please report the problem to the Poppler's bug tracking system at https://bugs.freedesktop.org, "poppler" product? This way the problem can be analyzed by the Poppler developers (and possibly fixed).

Thanks!

Comment 4 Tamir 2014-03-15 06:53:48 UTC

Confirms bug Okular (KDE 4.12.2), looking forward to solve the problem

Comment 5 Alex 2014-03-16 07:25:39 UTC

Confirms bug Okular Ubuntu 13.10 (KDE 4.12.2)

Comment 6 Luigi Toscano 2014-03-16 13:04:44 UTC

A quick note for all the people who are landing to this bug: the status of this bug is unlikely to change, as the issue comes from the underlying library used for PDF (poppler), as already stated. If you want to be updated on this issue, please check the upstream bug ("See also" field).
As a personal suggestion, adding other comments like "any updates" is not going to help, neither is going to have it fixed faster (but only to piss off developers). If it has not been yet fixed it, this probably means that the fix is not easy. Patches are always welcome.

Comment 7 Andrei 2019-02-27 10:19:22 UTC

Can't add it to 'See also', so leaving new upstream issue URL as a comment: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/issues/230

Comment 8 Luigi Toscano 2019-02-28 10:11:03 UTC

'See also' now also supports freedesktop issue URLs (thanks to sysadmins)