I found out that the bug is actually in poppler and have reported a bug
upstream, where it is being worked on.
** Also affects: poppler (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Bug watch added: gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues #1267
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1267
** Also affects: poppler via
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/-/issues/1267
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1980836
Title:
Regression in Ubuntu 22.04: Content of form field stored invisibly
Status in Poppler:
Unknown
Status in evince package in Ubuntu:
New
Status in poppler package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Evince on Ubuntu 22.04 is not able to handle some PDF forms correctly
anymore that it was able to handle on Ubuntu 21.10 and on Ubuntu
20.04.
The symptom is that one can edit the form content and also save it,
but that the entered text is only visible when the form field is
focused and in edit mode. Otherwise the text it is invisible, also on
printouts.
Such bugs have been reported against Evince for a long time (e.g.,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/265033) but I
am reporting this as a new bug because for the current form with which
I am experiencing this it is a regression.
I have attached the problematic form with two form fields filled out, one in
the upper left corner and the big one in the lower half.
I have produced this by taking the original, empty form (produced by somebody
else) and first opened it in Evince 41.4, which I have installed from the snap
package (revision 1017) on Ubuntu 22.04. I entered text in the upper left field
and saved the form.
Then I opened the PDF in Evince 42.3 from the apt package of Ubuntu 22.04 and
entered text in the big field and saved the form.
Evince 3.36 on Ubuntu 20.04 has the same (correct) behavior as Evince
41.4.
When I open the PDF again, only the text in the first field is
visible. The text in the second field is visible only if I click into
the field. The visibility of the field contents is the same for Evince
41.4 (snap), Evince 42.3 (apt), and Okular 20.12.3 (snap). So it seems
that the problem is with Evince 42.3 incorrectly saving the field
content, not with displaying it.
Firefox shows and prints the content of both fields, though.
Note that I cannot switch back to Evince 41 because for some other
forms that I have the exact same problem happens only with the old
version and the new version fixes it. So it seems that something
changed that fixed it for some forms and broke it for others.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04
Package: evince 42.3-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-40.43-generic 5.15.35
Uname: Linux 5.15.0-40-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: pass
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Jul 6 14:32:27 2022
InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-11-26 (222 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Release amd64 (20211012)
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
Snap.Changes:
ID Status Spawn Bereit
Zusammenfassung
137 Done 2022-07-06T12:48:33+02:00 2022-07-06T12:48:41+02:00
Installiere "evince" Snap
SourcePackage: evince
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-06-22 (13 days ago)
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