It's true that the example form has the Acrobat Professional extensions enabled. They're not required for basic form-filling, but they are for certain features such as comments and digital signatures. It's possible that doing pdf-pdf conversion will fail in this circumstance...
Printing these forms using lp used to work in Karmic (not sure what cups version that was). Maybe it was using the pdf-ps pipeline at the time? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to cups in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/923955 Title: pdftopdf filter fails to output form field values Status in “cups” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Running the provided form through the pdftopdf filter results in an empty PDF form: all field values disappear. These types of forms have been known to print correctly before (in Karmic). Tested under 10.10 and 11.04. Both show the same behavior. To reproduce: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pdftopdf 1 user '' 1 '' < interactive_enabled_filled.pdf > output.pdf or lpr interactive_enabled_filled.pdf Original form available here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/9.0/Samples/interactiveform_enabled.pdf To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+bug/923955/+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
