Bug 335033

Summary:	[Forms][Checkbox] Printing shows a 4 instead of a checkmark
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	quazgar <quazgar>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, antonioni.rocha, jimmyzoe, m.weghorn, max.schwarz, nate, u.fuchs
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version:	0.17.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Attachments:	A pdf with a fillable form. Print-to-PDF result with checkbox checked.

Description quazgar 2014-05-19 12:45:33 UTC

E.g. in PDFs created or edited with "Master PDF Editor" http://code-industry.net/pdfeditor.php, checkboxes are sometimes displayed correctly, but do not print as expected.  Instead of a tick mark, a number is printed, probably because Okular inserts the wrong font.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tick PDF checkbox form.
2. Print.
Actual Results:  
A number is printed in the box.

Expected Results:  
A checkmark (tick, cross, whatever was specified in the PDF) should have been printed.

See attached examples.

Comment 1 quazgar 2014-05-19 12:49:15 UTC

Created attachment 86709 [details]
A pdf with a fillable form.

Comment 2 quazgar 2014-05-19 12:49:44 UTC

Created attachment 86710 [details]
Print-to-PDF result with checkbox checked.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-19 20:49:54 UTC

Well, the 4 is the checmark :D

Comment 4 quazgar 2014-05-19 21:36:39 UTC

The actual number depends on the type of checkmark that has been set in the pdf. It may also be an 8 in the case of a tick (✔) instead of a cross (✘), if I remember my experiments correctly.

Comment 5 Fuchs 2016-01-25 18:44:36 UTC

This is my workaround for the problem:
Checkboxes are printed correctly if somewhere in the PDF-document a review (F6) emphasis (yellow pencil) is made. Transparancy can be set to 1%, so this mark is not printed actually.

Comment 6 Nate Graham 2017-09-29 04:14:08 UTC

*** Bug 376300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Max Schwarz 2020-04-24 22:28:11 UTC

This is still happening, with PDFs generated using Scribus.

Link to a relevant poppler bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/541