Bug 78622 - Fuller Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) support e.g. Sign, crypt, inputfields, comments
Summary: Fuller Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) support e.g. Sign, crypt, inputf...
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Alias: None
Product: koffice
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
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Assignee: KOffice Bug Wranglers
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Reported: 2004-03-28 17:57 UTC by Bjoern Bendix
Modified: 2009-10-29 23:09 UTC (History)
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Description Bjoern Bendix 2004-03-28 17:57:20 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
OS:          Linux

full pdf support.
IN adobe acrobat you can sign, crypt, inputfields and comment existing pdfs. Such support are very usefull. Because there is no adobe Product for linux.
Comment 1 David Faure 2004-03-30 20:56:45 UTC 
On Sunday 28 March 2004 17:57, Bjoern Bendix wrote:
> IN adobe acrobat you can sign, crypt, inputfields and comment existing pdfs.

Yeah, and Adobe put in jail the guy who found out how that worked...
No thanks, I won't take the same risks.

You need to bug Adobe and ask them to release the spec for this in the open,
otherwise it won't happen.
Comment 2 Brad Hards 2004-05-12 14:20:36 UTC 
The PDF specification is actually publically available:
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/pdf/specifications.jsp

Acrobat does mention a lot of patents when it loads though...
Comment 3 Gilles Schintgen 2005-08-18 15:48:45 UTC 
*** This bug has been confirmed by popular vote. ***
Comment 4 Alan Horkan 2006-10-10 04:26:58 UTC 
Maybe I'm missing a trick but it seems odd that this is filed against KOffice rather than Okular.  
work is being done on Okular (and the underlying library poppler) to allow many more features, notably form handling which I assume is the same as inputfields and I see no reason why the other features mentioned would not be improved too.  

I'm not quite sure how these features fit in with how Koffice works on PDF, since there is an import stage and an export stage and in between the document is no longer really a PDF but a Koffice document.  

Perhaps this request needs to be marked as Invalid or Wontfix or features such as encryption need to be requested in a more general form which doesn't actually have anything to do with PDF?
Comment 5 richlv 2008-01-09 10:54:46 UTC 
this seems to be a report involving both pdf creation and viewing. as such, it is almost impossible to handle.
i'd suggest marking as a dupe of bug 91809 (for input fields).

if the original features aren't yet implemented in corresponding products, original reporter probably should split these up specifying which product should do what.
Comment 6 Brad Hards 2008-01-09 21:38:36 UTC 
Bjoern: Can you break this bug report into a range of issues? "full pdf support" is just a bit underdefined :-)

You did identify "sign, crypt, inputfields and comment existing pdfs". Are you looking for something more than a PDF viewer like Okular (only additional features)? The main issue is that Okular can't (currently) modify files, and that is quite difficult to fix.
Comment 7 Thomas Zander 2009-10-29 23:09:15 UTC 
Opening and editing existing PDFs is not really KOffice domain, it best it will import a pdf to convert it to ODF, but the bugreport kind of belongs to an app like okular.