Bug 416252

Summary: Stamp annotations cannot be printed to pdf or "flattened"
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Denny.Seniazi
Component: printingAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: aacid, chimak111, nate
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.7.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Kubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Denny.Seniazi 2020-01-14 14:51:24 UTC
SUMMARY
I need a pdf file including my signature in a non-editable format.I have created a respective custom annotation. As there is no option to "flatten" annotations, I thought printing to pdf would be a suitable workaround. This workaround works for other annotations, but not for stamps (even for non-custom).

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a pdf file
2. add a stamp annotation,
3. print to pdf (tick print annotations). 
 

OBSERVED RESULT
A pdf without stamp annotations

EXPECTED RESULT
A pdf with non-editable ("flattened") stamp annotations

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Kernel 5.3.0/ KDE plasma 5.16.5
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version:  5.16.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.62.0
Qt Version: 5.12.4

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2020-01-14 22:49:37 UTC
Yeah, basically "stamps don't really work", they just work if you never leave Okular user interface.

There's various bugs about it
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-01-14 23:14:14 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 383651 ***