Unable to edit form created by pdflatex

thanks for your report.

The example is not rendered correctly on hardy, there is no entry displayed there

I've tested the pdf with acroread and it doesn't work there either, i'm afraid your pdf is broken, closing this report.

I just tested it with acroread 7 on Ubuntu Gutsy and it works just
fine for me. I use these forms all the time with Windows and Linux
and they always work with Acroread and the professional version of
Acrobat, but never with evince.

The form is deliberately simple--there is an input box with a red
outline surrounded by parentheses. Perhaps you were expecting more?
I've attached a screenshot of acroread and evince side-by-side on
Gutsy so you can see the difference.

I've tested it with hardy and with acroread there, there's no red box around there nor anything, same happens with xpdf.

I can reproduce this problem. The field does not appear in Evince, but does appear in Acroread 8.1.3. However, when I try to save it, Acroread shows a warning dialog reading "This document does not allow you to save any changes you have made to it unless you are using Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Standard or Adobe Acrobat 8.0 Professional. You will only be saving a copy of the original document. Do you want to continue?". This seems to imply that there's some kind of permission problem, maybe?

Reproduced with evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 and libpoppler3 0.8.7-1 on Ubuntu Intrepid.

On the other hand, according to pfdtk, the PDF does not contain a form field; I'm attaching the output of:

$ pdftk simpleform.pdf generate_fdf output simpleform.fdf

However, Acroread does understand the fields embedded (somehow?) in the PDF, so there's still definitely a bug here. There just might also be a bug in the package that generated it as well.

In fact, I too can verify that this works with adobe reader 8.1.3 in ibex.

Pedro, you need to install acroread-plugins for forms!!!!

the bug is an upstream one and should be sent to bugzilla.gnome.org

Filed upstream.

thank you for sending the bug to GNOME

I think it might be time to retire this bug. Forms can be filled now.

I just tried it with the sample file on Ubuntu 9.10 and it still doesn't work.

- Russ

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 11:17 AM, frotz <email address hidden> wrote:
> I think it might be time to retire this bug.  Forms can be filled now.
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> form support does not work with forms created by pdflatex
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/159032
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