Bug#567363: evince cannot correctly save some pdf forms

[Andrew Moise]

  I just encountered this in a more serious form -- evince now
attempts to save filled in data in forms, but doesn't it doesn't
always work. I was also filling in my tax information to an IRS form,
tested to make sure saving the form data worked before I got started,
and then started filling things out -- when I saved partway through, I
got a corrupt file and lost all my information.
  I'm having difficulty reproducing the bug, but I do have the saved
corrupt files (two different kinds: one was just a 0-byte file, the
other seemed to include the filled in form data but none of the data
from the original PDF, and is not a valid PDF). To me this seems like
it should have severity serious, since it leads to data loss in its
current form -- no?
  This is with evince 3.14.1-1; here's my dependency information:

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.8.11 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: unable to detect

Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii  evince-common  3.14.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.12.0-1
ii  libatk1.0-02.14.0-1
ii  libc6  2.19-13
ii  libcairo-gobject2  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcairo2  1.14.0-2.1
ii  libevdocument3-4   3.14.1-1
ii  libevview3-3   3.14.1-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1
ii  libglib2.0-0   2.42.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1
ii  libnautilus-extension1a3.14.1-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-01.36.8-3
ii  libsecret-1-0  0.18-1+b1
ii  libxml22.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  shared-mime-info   1.3-1
ii  zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii  dbus-x11  1.8.12-3
ii  gvfs  1.22.2-1

Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii  nautilus  3.14.1-2
ii  poppler-data  0.4.7-1
pn  unrar none

-- no debconf information


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Bug#567363: evince cannot correctly save some pdf forms

[anomie]

Package: evince
Version: 2.28.2-1

Some PDF forms, such as http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf, can
be opened with evince and edited fine, but when saving all the changes
are forgotten and the modified fields in the saved version can no longer
be edited. When saving, evince outputs the following error to the
console once for each field in the form that was modified:

 Error: Reference in Fields array to an invalid or non existant object

Running the original pdf through either pdfopt or pdfedit's delinearize
function creates a form that can be correctly saved, at least in this
case.



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