Bug 782858 - Evince no longer saves form data when saving a pdf
Summary: Evince no longer saves form data when saving a pdf
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: evince
Version: 19
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
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Assignee: Marek Kašík
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-01-18 17:25 UTC by Michael Knepher
Modified: 2015-02-18 13:40 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-02-18 13:40:30 UTC
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Description Michael Knepher 2012-01-18 17:25:34 UTC
Description of problem:
Previously, I was able to fill in form fields in a PDF and when using "Save a Copy", the data I entered would be preserved 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.2.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a PDF with form fields
2. Enter data
3. "Save a Copy" and save the PDF using a new name
  
Actual results:
The new copy does not preserve the changed data in the form fields

Expected results:
New and changed data in form fields should be preserved.

Additional info:
This worked in F15, and seems to have stopped working around the time I upgraded to F16, but I can't be certain that it was a consequence of the upgrade.

Comment 1 Marek Kašík 2012-01-19 09:30:28 UTC
Hi Michael,

I can not reproduce the issue. Could you try to reproduce it with this pdf: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Samples/interactiveform_enabled.pdf

Could you also past here result of this command:
rpm -q poppler evince

Regards

Marek

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Comment 4 Rik van Riel 2013-08-08 21:12:34 UTC
This is still broken in Fedora 19.

Comment 5 Rik van Riel 2013-08-08 21:13:47 UTC
In addition to form data not being preserved when saving the PDF to a new name, saving the PDF to its original filename results in evince throwing out all the form data in the working copy on the screen, too.

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