From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050513 Fedora/1.7.8-1.3.1 Description of problem: try to display, edit, save forms in a pdf-form and you will see that only acroread >=5.1 can do this job correctly. please enhance the included pdf-viewer or include acroread in future releases, at least in extras. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): evince 0.3.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. try to edit and save a pdf-form with the fedora included pdf-viewer (evince, xpdf, kpdf) Actual Results: nothing works as expected except acroread >=5.1 Additional info: acroread <5.1 can edit but not save acroread >=5.1 can edit and save since a short time acroread 7.x is officilay available for linux http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html as tar.gz and rpm $ pdfinfo fw9.pdf Title: Form W-9 (Rev. January 2005) Subject: Request for Taxpayer Identification Number and Certificate Keywords: Fillable Author: SE:W:CAR:MP Creator: OneForm Designer Plus Producer: Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 (Windows) CreationDate: 04-05-17 ModDate: Tue Mar 15 07:22:47 2005 Tagged: no Pages: 4 Encrypted: no Page size: 612 x 792.008 pts (letter) File size: 79195 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.3
On a related note, if a form _has_ been edited in acroread, evince doesn't seem to show the parts which were filled in. xpdf and kpdf do show those parts. The form to which shrek-m refers is http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
This is being tracked upstream.