Bug 362996 - Okular does not prompt to save form data
Summary: Okular does not prompt to save form data
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: 0.24.0
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2016-05-12 23:28 UTC by Konstantin Svist
Modified: 2017-11-16 14:09 UTC (History)
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Description Konstantin Svist 2016-05-12 23:28:37 UTC
If user enters some data into a form in a PDF document, then closes Okular -- data is saved out of band and does not persist with the file. This is reasonable for a "single user/frequently used template" workflow, but not reasonable for "fill out this document and email it back to me" workflow.

Suggestion: if data was edited, upon closing, user should be presented with a choice:
* Save form data in the document
** can be viewed/edited/printed in a different PDF viewer, on another computer, or after file is duplicated
* Remember form data outside the document
** can be viewed/edited/printed from this computer's Okular only

Or the same kind of popup as "this document contains forms" can inform the user that the data can be saved with the file/etc.

The main problem is that user doesn't even know that the data was not saved with the file -- and that there's an option to do that (currently, by Save As)

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2017-11-16 14:09:26 UTC
This won't be anymore the case starting with the Okular that will be part of KDE Applications 17.12 (aka okular 1.3.0)