Bug 468565 - Checkbox won't select on fillable PDF
Summary: Checkbox won't select on fillable PDF
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: fontconfig
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Akira TAGOH
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 418651 497648 562952 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-26 02:26 UTC by Daryll
Modified: 2018-04-11 14:46 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

Fixed In Version: fontconfig-2.9.91-1.fc18
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2012-06-11 12:18:25 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
Federal W-9 as example input for evince (250.15 KB, application/pdf)
2008-10-26 02:26 UTC, Daryll
no flags Details


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Description Daryll 2008-10-26 02:26:19 UTC
Created attachment 321533 [details]
Federal W-9 as example input for evince

Description of problem: 
I'm trying to edit the federal W9 form at:
www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
I want to check the type of tax entity.
If you move the cursor over the check box it changes from text insertion to a finger pointer, but pressing the mouse button does not check the box.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-2.24.1-1.fc10.i386

How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
See Description
  
Actual results:
Nothing gets checked


Expected results:
Checkbox is checked.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2008-11-12 02:18:44 UTC
This turns out to be a font configuration problem. See the upstream bug http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502664

I can fix it by adding 

        <alias binding="same">
          <family>ZapfDingbats</family>
          <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept>
        </alias>

next to the existing Dingbats alias in the file /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 04:14:50 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
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Comment 3 Behdad Esfahbod 2008-12-17 06:45:15 UTC
Filed upstream:
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19128

Will get it in the fontconfig tree I'm working on.

Comment 4 Martin Jürgens 2009-05-14 11:21:52 UTC
*** Bug 418651 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 08:38:35 UTC
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Comment 6 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 06:39:07 UTC
Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.

Comment 7 Daryll 2009-12-23 18:33:03 UTC
Please re-open, problem persists in Fedora 12.

The change from Matthias appears to be installed on F12, but when I move the mouse over a checkbox, the pointer turns to a finger, but clicking the square does not do anything.

Testing using the same IRS W-9 rev Oct 2007 that's included in my earlier report.

Comment 8 Thomas Moschny 2010-04-09 08:23:44 UTC
Problem still there with evince-2.28.2-1.fc12.x86_64.

In some documents boxes can't be checked at all, in other documents a '$' is shown instead of an 'X'.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2010-11-04 11:44:17 UTC
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Comment 10 Daryll 2010-11-04 16:06:50 UTC
Still true in Fedora 13 with evince 2.30.3-1 and fontconfig-2.8.0-1

Comment 11 Shaun McCance 2011-02-20 19:03:31 UTC
Still true on Fedora 14, 2.32.0-1, fontconfig 2.8.0-2. Matthias's fix in comment #1 works for me.

Comment 12 Thomas Moschny 2011-02-22 10:55:24 UTC
(In reply to comment #11)
> Still true on Fedora 14, 2.32.0-1, fontconfig 2.8.0-2. Matthias's fix in
> comment #1 works for me.

Same here.

Is there a reason for not adding that simple fix to the fontconfig package?

Comment 13 Matěj Cepl 2011-03-13 21:17:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #12)
> (In reply to comment #11)
> > Still true on Fedora 14, 2.32.0-1, fontconfig 2.8.0-2. Matthias's fix in
> > comment #1 works for me.
> 
> Same here.
> 
> Is there a reason for not adding that simple fix to the fontconfig package?

Could you attach to this bug working /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf which would make checkbox be checked with something else than $ sign in http://cds.mfcr.cz/cps/rde/xbcr/cds/Interaktiv_5405_17_4AK.pdf, please?

It seems to me that the fix from the comment 1 has been already added to that file, so it is probably not done correctly.

Thank you

Comment 14 Thomas Moschny 2011-03-14 08:42:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #13)
> (In reply to comment #12)
> > (In reply to comment #11)
> > > Still true on Fedora 14, 2.32.0-1, fontconfig 2.8.0-2. Matthias's fix in
> > > comment #1 works for me.
> > 
> > Same here.
> > 
> > Is there a reason for not adding that simple fix to the fontconfig package?
> 
> Could you attach to this bug working /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-urw-aliases.conf
> which would make checkbox be checked with something else than $ sign in
> http://cds.mfcr.cz/cps/rde/xbcr/cds/Interaktiv_5405_17_4AK.pdf, please?
> 
> It seems to me that the fix from the comment 1 has been already added to that
> file, so it is probably not done correctly.
> 
> Thank you

This is the fragment that needs to be added:

<fontconfig>
  <alias binding="same">
    <family>ZapfDingbats</family>
    <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

Note that the difference to the existing entry is only one blank:
"Zapf Dingbats" (present in 30-urw-aliases.conf) vs. "ZapfDingbats" (missing). Seems _both_ entries are needed.

Comment 15 Thomas Moschny 2011-05-30 20:24:45 UTC
Ping? Problem still there.

evince-3.0.0-1.fc15.x86_64
fontconfig-2.8.0-3.fc15.x86_64
fontconfig-2.8.0-3.fc15.i686


Quick solution for anyone else seeing the same problem:

$ cat >/etc/fonts/conf.d/31-fix.conf <<EOF
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
	<alias binding="same">
	  <family>ZapfDingbats</family>
	  <accept><family>Dingbats</family></accept>
	</alias>
</fontconfig>
EOF
$ fc-cache

Comment 16 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 18:26:17 UTC
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Comment 17 Joel 2011-08-24 23:04:26 UTC
Is there any reason why this bug, with a trivial patch that works (just confirmed on FC14) hasn't been applied?

Note that doing the fc-cache will crash firefox, but evince display checkboxes correctly afterwards.

Comment 18 redhatbugzilla 2011-09-02 11:23:05 UTC
I can confirm this for FC15.

Why is this on NEEDINFO?

Comment 19 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-01-10 15:42:20 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 20 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-03-22 01:38:26 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 21 Akira TAGOH 2012-03-23 07:37:47 UTC
*** Bug 497648 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 22 Akira TAGOH 2012-04-05 10:14:08 UTC
*** Bug 562952 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 23 Akira TAGOH 2012-06-11 12:18:25 UTC
should be fixed in fontconfig-2.9.91-1.fc18


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