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 2. 3. 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
Which poppler version are you using? Please attach the document you are experiencing this issue with.
Name : poppler Version : 0.20.2 Release : 15.fc18 Architecture: x86_64 document: anything from the IRS (USA) :S
Please, make our life easier and attach or link the document, you know where to get it, i don't
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irs.gov%2Fpub%2Firs-pdf%2Ff2553.pdf&ei=pc-SUe_6KIei8ATEkIDABA&usg=AFQjCNH-cQ3fVxL4fE3jC9Bbyjs1DGeGMQ&sig2=lNdCnidFQTacSSW6Z9lgcA&bvm=bv.46471029,d.eWU
Created attachment 79904 [details] The file, for posterity
Works without any problem for me, does it fail in all fields or only on some?
all fields
Which text do you write?
I mean is it english or some kind of arabic?
english.
and i got 2 boxes at home. both show the same symptoms
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.
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.
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.