Bug 343834

Summary:	Okular doesn't print some form fields; selection menus with preset texts
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Yuri <yuri>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	aacid, antonioni.rocha, m.weghorn, nate, oliver.sander, ppg.1382, robertstain
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	FreeBSD
URL:	https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2013/13_540.pdf
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442849
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	The PDF form mentioned in the bug report PDF form with selection menu with preset texts Original file before form fillin PDF after selecting preset text in a selection menu form screenshot screenshot print-preview (= same as print to PDF) lost preset text selected

Description Yuri 2015-02-05 22:15:26 UTC

Some form fields don;t get printed.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download this document https://www.ftb.ca.gov/forms/2013/13_540.pdf and open it in okular
2. Click "Show forms"
3. Go to the last page, and fill in some date in "Sign Here" section
4. Click on "Print Preview" item in menu
5. The entered date isn't in the print preview

Other form fields get printed, just not this date.

okular-4.14.2_1

Comment 1 Michael Weghorn 2017-07-20 11:36:42 UTC

Created attachment 106757 [details]
The PDF form mentioned in the bug report

I am attaching the respective PDF file to avoid it might get lost should the given URI no longer work at some point in time in the future.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2019-05-21 20:04:24 UTC

Still valid with the latest Okular and Poppler.

Comment 3 Yuri 2019-05-21 20:56:37 UTC

Is there any way to let developers know of this important outstanding issue?

Comment 4 Oliver Sander 2019-05-22 07:23:23 UTC

The developers do know of this issue -- they read all incoming bug reports. The problem is lack of man-power. If you really really need this fixed and cannot do it yourself then you always have the option of hiring someone. I can tell you from experience that that works very nicely.

Comment 5 toni_rocha 2023-11-25 02:17:13 UTC

(In reply to Oliver Sander from comment #4)
> The developers do know of this issue -- they read all incoming bug reports.
> The problem is lack of man-power. If you really really need this fixed and
> cannot do it yourself then you always have the option of hiring someone. I
> can tell you from experience that that works very nicely.

I don't believe it, after all, development progresses on other more trivial things in KDE.

I think it's a lack of interest, damaging the defense of using Linux (Evince has the same problem, and I can only use browsers to print PDFs with forms).

Comment 6 Pratham Gandhi 2024-03-22 20:22:46 UTC

I wanted to ask if this works well with Adobe Reader, as I checked on Firefox and Chromium and it does not work there as well.

Comment 7 Robby 2025-10-04 20:19:19 UTC

Created attachment 185516 [details]
PDF form with selection menu with preset texts Original file before form fillin

Step 1) PDF with forms with selection menu with preset texts Original file before form fillin

Comment 8 Robby 2025-10-04 20:24:06 UTC

Created attachment 185517 [details]
PDF after selecting preset text in a selection menu form screenshot

Step 2) PDF with forms with selection menu with preset texts: screenshot after selecting preset texts in forms
Okular version 21.12.3 on Ubuntu 22 LTS

Comment 9 Robby 2025-10-04 20:26:40 UTC

Created attachment 185518 [details]
screenshot print-preview (= same as print to PDF) lost preset text selected

Step 3) PDF with forms with selection menu with preset texts: screenshot print-preview (= same as print to PDF)
Okular version 21.12.3 on Ubuntu 22 LTS
Bug not present when using same PDF in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2025 on Windows

Comment 10 Robby 2025-10-04 20:30:03 UTC

Form type (example file EN-103_1.pdf see attachments)
A) fill in text OK
B) check box check or uncheck OK
C) selection menu with preset text NOT OK