For reproducing this bug, form IT-203 is an even better case: http://www.tax.state.ny.us/pdf/2008/fillin/inc/it203_2008_fill_in.pdf
Here, after selecting option 1 from the large (A) Filing Status check box fields in acrobat, saving the PDF file, and opening with evince changed the selection from option 1 to option 5, even though it stills shows correctly in acrobat. Jorrit On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Jorrit Herder <[email protected]> wrote: > You can easily reproduce this with 1040NR tax forms for 2008. > > Given the kind of problem and the place where it shows up (filing tax > returns) I'd certainly jump the importance to high. > > Jorrit > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 5:07 PM, Pedro Villavicencio <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thanks for the report, could you take a couple of screenshot showing the >> issues and attach the pdf file in question? thanks in advance. >> >> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) >> Importance: Undecided => Low >> >> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) >> Status: New => Incomplete >> >> ** Changed in: evince (Ubuntu) >> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) >> >> -- >> Fillable PDF checkbox fields broken >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350188 >> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber >> of the bug. >> >> Status in “evince” source package in Ubuntu: Incomplete >> >> Bug description: >> Binary package hint: evince >> >> Evince Document Viewer 2.24.1, using poppler 0.8.7 (cairo) under Ubuntu 8.10 >> evince: >> Installed: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 >> Candidate: 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 >> >> I just was finalizing my U.S. Tax Returns and came across a very nasty bug. >> When I doublechecked the printouts that I wanted to send out, I noticed that >> the check box fields checked differed from my selection. I checked my PDF >> forms and it turns out that, if I open them with Acrobat Reader, everything >> looks fine. However, Evince Document Viewer 2.24.1, using poppler 0.8.7 >> (cairo) under Ubuntu 8.10 gives the wrong selection, resulting in a bad >> printout, which almost caused me to file bad forms. >> >> ProblemType: Bug >> Architecture: i386 >> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10 >> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince >> NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx >> Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1 >> ProcEnviron: >> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games >> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 >> SHELL=/bin/bash >> SourcePackage: evince >> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 >> > -- Fillable PDF checkbox fields broken https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350188 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
