Bug 197694

Summary:	Display problems with forms in Japanese language pdf files
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	homoludens <homoludens1000>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Unspecified
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Description homoludens 2009-06-24 05:14:19 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.4)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

Okular appears to have problems with form fields in Japanese language pdf files:

(1) In some form fields, Japanese text is displayed as jibberish; latin charaters and numbers, however, are displayed fine.
(2) In some form fields, ALL text is displayed as jibberish.
(3) Clickable fields are not displayed correctly (The underlying text can't be seen; perhaps the fields are too large, or should be transparent.)
(4) On the printout, some fields retain borders that shouldn't be printed.

I can provide relevant files at request (the original, with some form fields filled in, a copy of the printout).

Comment 1 Pino Toscano 2009-06-24 19:41:39 UTC

Hi,

as said in bug #197693, a first suggestion is to update to the last stable version of poppler (0.10.7 for you).

> (1) In some form fields, Japanese text is displayed as jibberish; latin
> charaters and numbers, however, are displayed fine.

I recall this as already reported problem for Poppler.

> (2) In some form fields, ALL text is displayed as jibberish.

Most probably another Poppler issue.

> (3) Clickable fields are not displayed correctly (The underlying text can't be
> seen; perhaps the fields are too large, or should be transparent.)

Don't undeestand, could you provide an example for this issue?

> (4) On the printout, some fields retain borders that shouldn't be printed.

This is another Poppler issue, to be reported on the Poppler's bug tracking system.

Comment 2 homoludens 2009-06-26 08:05:55 UTC

(Thanks for the help. I can't upgrade Poppler right now -- see my comments under Bug 197693 -- will get back to you as soon as I can.

As for (3), if the form fields are not activated, you can see Japanese characters at those spots:
[URL=http://www.imagebam.com/image/877b4440197885/][IMG]http://thumbnails11.imagebam.com/4020/877b4440197885.gif[/IMG][/URL]

Once fields are activated, some big input boxes cover the Japanese, see here:
[URL=http://www.imagebam.com/image/4f2ce240197886/][IMG]http://thumbnails16.imagebam.com/4020/4f2ce240197886.gif[/IMG][/URL]
If things worked alright, these boxes should be transparent so that you can still see the Japanese text underneath. Clicking into the boxes would add a check mark at the respective place, which currently doesn't seem to work.

Since everything else is Poppler related, I would assume this one is, too, so I'll wait until I can upgrade.

Cheers

Comment 3 homoludens 2009-06-26 08:08:04 UTC

Just noticed that I can't paste images in BBCode here. Here are the links to images:

(a) form fields not activated:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/877b4440197885/

(b) form fields activated:
http://www.imagebam.com/image/4f2ce240197886/

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2012-07-23 17:03:24 UTC

Can you still reproduce this issue with a newer version? If so it'd be great if you could send me the file with the problem.

Thanks for caring about okular :-)

Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2012-09-24 07:49:19 UTC

The user could not provide the requested data in 2 months so resolving the bug as invalid, please if you can provide the data reopen the bug and attach the data to the bug.