I still experience this bug with ubuntu 12.04 regarding this file. and others like it. although it I have not tried it with the IRS tax forms. I can upload the form to a site of your choosing if you wish. The workaround also did not work. It accepts the data, but save the data but the data is not viewable unless it is reentered. Even saving it again did not work.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/518230 Title: Some PDF forms don't save entered information Status in Evince document viewer: New Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in “evince” package in Debian: New Bug description: Binary package hint: evince When trying to fill out certain PDF forms, such as the PDF tax forms available form irs.gov, with evince, I noticed a problem. Some forms could be filled out and saved just fine, and when those forms were reloaded the entered form data was still there. But other forms didn't work properly: filling in the form and saving it appeared to work, but when I loaded the form again the entered data was blank. One form that worked properly was the 1040 form, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf One form that failed to work was the 1040 Schedule SE form, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sse.pdf Also, when clicking on the rows of the SE that I had previously entered data into (and that now appeared blank), I noticed that evince no longer gave me an editing cursor for those rows. It was as if the form's text-entry box for those rows (and ONLY those rows) had been replaced by a blank, white, non-interactive rectangle. All other rows on the form (that I had not previously entered data into) were still interactive, but the rows that *should* have contained data were blank and unresponsive. To reproduce the problem: 1) Download the 1040 and 1040 SE forms from the above links. 2) Open the 1040 in evince. Enter some data. Save the form. Close evince. 3) Re-open the 1040. Verify that the data entered previously is still there, and can be edited. 4) Open the 1040 SE in evince. Enter some data on rows 1a and 2 of the form, leaving row 1b blank. Save the form. Close evince. 5) Re-open the 1040 SE. Notice that rows 1a and 2 are blank and no longer respond to mouse clicks or keypresses, but row 1b (and other rows) can still be used. This happens on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), using version 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2 of the evince package (from karmic-updates). To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/518230/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
