Bug 161327 - Filing out forms does not work
Summary: Filing out forms does not work
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.6.3
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-04-27 13:46 UTC by m.wege
Modified: 2017-03-28 22:19 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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This is the document where it does not work filling out forms (74.06 KB, application/pdf)
2008-04-27 13:47 UTC, m.wege
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Here is the screenshot showing the problem. (57.45 KB, image/png)
2008-04-27 13:47 UTC, m.wege
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A PDF with forms to fill (134.31 KB, application/pdf)
2008-11-24 00:13 UTC, Jose R. Padilla
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An screenshot displaying the PDF file (168.84 KB, image/jpeg)
2008-11-24 00:15 UTC, Jose R. Padilla
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Screenshot examples - Okular with K.D.E. 4.2.2. and Kubunty 9.04 (934.81 KB, application/pdf)
2009-05-05 16:40 UTC, Bas Roufs
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Example in English of PDF form which cannot be filled in or saved correctly. (358.18 KB, application/pdf)
2009-05-05 16:43 UTC, Bas Roufs
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Another example of the PDF form - in Dutch, but with the same problems. (311.35 KB, application/pdf)
2009-05-05 16:46 UTC, Bas Roufs
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Description m.wege 2008-04-27 13:46:16 UTC
Version:           0.6.3 (using KDE 3.5.9)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
Compiler:          Target: i486-linux-gnu
OS:                Linux (i686) release 2.6.22-14-generic

It is not possible to fill out the forms in the attached documents. Form fields appear to be crippeld and in the wrong position. You can see it on the attached screenshot. Filling out the forms works fine with Adobe Reader. I run the KDE4-Version of Okular with Kubuntu Gutsy under KDE3.
Comment 1 m.wege 2008-04-27 13:47:04 UTC
Created attachment 24536 [details]
This is the document where it does not work filling out forms
Comment 2 m.wege 2008-04-27 13:47:57 UTC
Created attachment 24537 [details]
Here is the screenshot showing the problem.
Comment 3 Jose R. Padilla 2008-11-24 00:13:30 UTC
Created attachment 28781 [details]
A PDF with forms to fill

Another PDF with forms that show the input fields in a bad position
Comment 4 Jose R. Padilla 2008-11-24 00:15:26 UTC
Created attachment 28782 [details]
An screenshot displaying the PDF file

This is an screenshot showing Okular displaying the file
Comment 5 Jose R. Padilla 2008-11-24 00:16:21 UTC
The same with Okular from KDE 4.1.3 in Kubuntu 8.10
Comment 6 Albert Astals Cid 2008-12-28 02:20:46 UTC
SVN commit 902306 by aacid:

Normalize the rect, after all is called normalized rect, no?

Fixes first pdf of bug 161327

Pino, should i backport this to 4.1.4?

CCBUG: 161327


 M  +5 -4      area.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=902306
Comment 7 Albert Astals Cid 2008-12-28 02:58:32 UTC
The second pdf will be fixed in next poppler release.
Comment 8 Albert Astals Cid 2008-12-28 03:01:22 UTC
Reopening, rendering on first pdf is upside down, more than probably a poppler issue too
Comment 9 Bas Roufs 2009-05-05 16:10:20 UTC
Difficulties to fill in forms with Okular in the framework of Kubuntu 9.04 and KDE 4.2.2.

Additional information with respect to Bug 161327 – Filing out forms does not work.

Bas Roufs, Utrecht, NL, BasRoufs@gmail.com, 5 May 2009. 

Summary
The Dutch chamber of commerce uses PDF forms for all kinds of purposes: registration of legal entities, companies, etc. Via Okular, I do not manage to fill in all of these forms. Additionally, I experience difficulties to correctly save and reopen data filled in in forms which can be filled in by means of Okular. The only way I have found so far to correctly do all this, is using 'Adobe Reader 9'.  However, I would prefer to use Okular for such purposes as soon as the bug(s) with respect to them have been resolved. 
Together with this attachment, I submit 2 other attachments to the bug report: 2 examples of the forms of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, one of them in English. 

Here below at this page, I share with you my vision on a certain priority rating: which problems need to be solved first, which ones can be dealt with later? 


Priority 1: impossibility to fill in a certain type of forms.
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So far, I do not manage at all to fill in a certain type of forms. See examples  below, pp. 4-7. 
 In Adobe, it is possible to fill them in.

Priority 2: impossibility to correctly save, close and reopen data of forms filled in
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Difficulties to correctly save, close and reopen a PDF document with forms already filled in.  In Adobe in combination it is possible to save data given in the forms in this specific form. 

Priority 3: grey field surrounding the forms while filling them in
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Grey fields surround the forms, when Okular is in the 'show forms' mode, needed to fill in the forms. As a matter of consequence, you cannot see exactly which field you are filling in, WHILE you are filling in. The thumbnails on the left hand side are visible, though not big enough to check such details. On the other hand, it is possible to easily and quickly change between the 'show forms' and 'hide forms' modes via a specific button right above. That's why, this problem is only nr. 3 in my priority rating - I attach more importance to the problems mentioned under 1 and 2. 
In Adobe, it is possible to fill in the forms, while seeing their surroundings at the same moment. 

Screenshot examples: see submitted attachment "Okular screenshots", pp. 2-7.

I hope thisa additional report will help to resolve the bug(s) dealt with here.
Respectfully yours,

Bas Roufs.
Comment 10 Bas Roufs 2009-05-05 16:40:45 UTC
Created attachment 33368 [details]
Screenshot examples - Okular with K.D.E. 4.2.2. and Kubunty 9.04

These screenshot examples clarify a lot.
Comment 11 Bas Roufs 2009-05-05 16:43:45 UTC
Created attachment 33369 [details]
Example in English of PDF form which cannot be filled in or saved correctly. 

Open this attachment with Okular to understand better the nature of the bug(s0 dealt with here.
Comment 12 Bas Roufs 2009-05-05 16:46:12 UTC
Created attachment 33371 [details]
Another example of the PDF form - in Dutch, but with the same problems.

Another form, but with the same technology.
Comment 13 disabled account 2010-01-23 04:43:01 UTC
Confirmed in KDE SC 4.3.90.
Comment 14 Pino Toscano 2010-01-23 10:53:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> Confirmed in KDE SC 4.3.90.

Confirmed what? Documents of comment #1 and #3 work... also, what is your Poppler version?
Comment 15 disabled account 2010-01-24 04:01:03 UTC
http://www.texparts.de/TEXPARTS_2004.PDF This is the PDF I tested, my poppler version is 0.12.0, while 0.12.3 is current stable.
Comment 16 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-11 11:53:47 UTC
Can you guys reproduce this with newer okular/poppler versions? I just tried all the files and they work fine here.
Comment 17 Albert Astals Cid 2017-03-28 22:19:34 UTC
No answer for years