Bug 319163 - pdf form data saved but not printable nor viewable except in forms mode
Summary: pdf form data saved but not printable nor viewable except in forms mode
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 0.16.2
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
URL:
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2013-05-01 11:40 UTC by Mohammed Arafa
Modified: 2016-10-26 19:57 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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The file, for posterity (284.80 KB, application/octet-stream)
2013-05-15 18:23 UTC, Albert Astals Cid
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Description Mohammed Arafa 2013-05-01 11:40:22 UTC
while attempting to fill out some forms in okular i noticed that data input in the forms would not be visible.
conditions observed:
open a pdf form. hit the "show forms" button. input data.
- there is no "save" so use "save as"
hit the "hide forms" button; the data will disappear

close the pdf. close okular if u like.
reopen the pdf file; the data will not be visible
hit the "show forms" button, the data will be visible.

print the pdf document; data will not be visible.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.see above
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Actual Results:  
form data is invisible

Expected Results:  
form data is visible and printable

i have noticed this going on for a year plus now.
in the end i always have to revert to some other dusty legacy software so that i may retain my data and print out my forms
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-07 21:59:18 UTC
Which poppler version are you using?
Please attach the document you are experiencing this issue with.
Comment 2 Mohammed Arafa 2013-05-08 02:55:02 UTC
Name        : poppler
Version     : 0.20.2
Release     : 15.fc18
Architecture: x86_64

document: anything from the IRS (USA) :S
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-08 17:30:50 UTC
Please, make our life easier and attach or link the document, you know where to get it, i don't
Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-15 18:23:32 UTC
Created attachment 79904 [details]
The file, for posterity
Comment 6 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-15 18:26:31 UTC
Works without any problem for me, does it fail in all fields or only on some?
Comment 7 Mohammed Arafa 2013-05-16 01:49:11 UTC
all fields
Comment 8 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-16 17:16:48 UTC
Which text do you write?
Comment 9 Albert Astals Cid 2013-05-16 17:17:02 UTC
I mean is it english or some kind of arabic?
Comment 10 Mohammed Arafa 2013-05-17 11:24:21 UTC
english.
Comment 11 Mohammed Arafa 2013-05-17 11:24:48 UTC
and i got 2 boxes at home. both show the same symptoms
Comment 12 Fabio D'Urso 2013-05-17 12:51:12 UTC
I confirm the bug exists with Poppler 0.20.
The Poppler patches that fix it were pushed to the poppler-0.20 branch, but they were never actually released as part of the 0.20 series (poppler-0.20.5 doesn't include them).
Poppler 0.22 has it fixed.
Comment 13 guy 2015-12-01 01:16:41 UTC
It still seems to have that problem here.

Okular 0.23.2 on KDE Development Platform 4.14.13 when running on KDE Plasma version 5.4.3 on Kubuntu 15.10

Poppler is in 0.33.0

I cannot print or print-preview any embedded form content. Form content only becomes visible when hitting the "Show Forms" button, but it will never let me print any of the content.
Comment 14 Tristan Miller 2016-10-20 16:15:46 UTC
Problem is still reproducible with Okular 0.26.0 on KDE Development Platform 4.14.24 with libpoppler 0.47.0.

Fabio D'Urso, is there an upstream bug report documenting that the problem was supposed to have been fixed in Poppler 0.22?  I have found https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95371 but that is much more recent than your last comment.