I was running into this same bug with "GNOME Document Viewer 2.30.3". The pdfopt workaround worked for me.
-- 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: Confirmed 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 It was as if the form's text-entry box for those rows (and ONLY those rows) had been replaced by a blank, white, non-interactive rectangle.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
