Yes, that is correct. The data is changed, but not the appearance stream (AP). As per ISO 32000-1:2008, viewers use the AP to render the field values.
Leonard From: Fabio D'Urso <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> To: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Cc: "[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: Re: [poppler] Filled text field data not visible in saved document On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 01:03:00 PM Alexander Finder wrote: > I try to auto-fill a PDF with editable form fields. > Some of the fields are already pre-filled. > [...] > However, when I save the document and open it again, it shows the old > value or empty fields, respectively. > If I click onto the corresponding form fields, it shows the value, I set > the form field to and which I would expect, too. Seems like https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44506. My first guess is that it's because we don't change the associated appearance stream. I'll try to find out more in the next days. Fabio
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