Bug 289468

Summary:	PDF Form entry not displaying
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	mdhirsch
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, fabiodurso, spam-mails-here
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.13.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	This is the example pdf file taht displays incorrectly some screenshots of my system (okular <-> acroread)

Description mdhirsch 2011-12-20 23:05:28 UTC

Version:           0.13.2 (using KDE 4.7.2) 
OS:                Linux

The attached PDF is a form.  The first field is "Books Books Books", but it doesn't display in okular.  The field is available to fill out in Show Forms mode, but when you turn off forms (Hide Forms) the field does not display.

This file shows a variety of other display bugs that you might want to look at.  Compare the view in acroread to the view in okular.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Load the attached file into okular and acroread from Adobe and compare the behavior.  Note that "Books Books Books" does not display in okular.

Actual Results:  
"Books Books Books" does not display in okular.

Expected Results:  
"Books Books Books" should display in okular.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 3.0.0-13-generic
Compiler: gcc

Comment 1 mdhirsch 2011-12-20 23:07:01 UTC

Created attachment 66962 [details]
This is the example pdf file taht displays incorrectly

Comment 2 spam-mails-here 2013-01-31 10:08:09 UTC

Can't confirm this.
Version 0.15.5 (KDE 4.9.5) Gentoo Linux
Everything worked well. Close it?

Comment 3 mdhirsch 2013-01-31 17:21:35 UTC

With identical versions (Version 0.15.5 (KDE 4.9.5) ) on Kubuntu 12.10 it still doesn't work right.   "Books Books Books" still does not display in okular.

Comment 4 Albert Astals Cid 2013-02-05 19:56:31 UTC

I don't see any "Books Books Books" if i open the file in acrobat reader, can you please post a screenshot?

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2013-02-11 23:47:56 UTC

If you can provide the information requested in comment #4, please add it.

Comment 6 spam-mails-here 2013-02-15 15:59:53 UTC

Created attachment 77326 [details]
some screenshots of my system (okular <-> acroread)

Okular saves the formular input data, even if you download a file again from the web. Please delete:
~/.kde4/share/apps/okular/docdata/255107.CertificateStreet_BL_135(2).pdf.xml (or similar)

The beaviour of my system is documented in the attached screenshots.
screenshot_1_orig.png: Initial load of your PDF
screenshot_2_form.png: Change the first input field to "Books Books Books"
screenshot_3_result.png: Hide the formular fields and you can see your input embedded in the document

Which version of poppler do you use. I have 0.20.5 as it is marked stabel in Gentoo.
I guess in Ubuntu it's 0.20.4.
Try a newer Version and file a bug at Ubuntu if this solves your problem

Comment 7 Fabio D'Urso 2014-05-08 14:53:46 UTC

If I understand corrently: you are typing "books books books" in Okular, but it disappears when you click on Hide forms.
It seems to work here, please reopen if I misunderstood and/or you can reproduce the issue with recent Okular and Poppler versions (eg poppler >= 0.24 and Okular >= 0.19.0 [ie KDE >= 4.13.0]).
Thanks for caring about Okular :)