GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 304575
support PDF forms
Last modified: 2007-07-09 11:33:27 UTC
Version details: 0.3.0-2 Distribution/Version: Debian Unstable The would be great if Evince could support PDF Forms. I don't know how hard it is, but definitely a needed feature. Government of Canada makes extensive use of these
Red Hat bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158992
Quoting the Red Hat bug: >On a related note, if a form _has_ been edited in acroread, evince doesn't seem >to show the parts which were filled in. xpdf and kpdf do show those parts. >The form to which shrek-m refers is http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw9.pdf
*** Bug 316447 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
We have created a page about that http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Forms
Is someone still working on this or is the patch ready to apply? It would greatly improve Evince for some people (not me ;))
Although I took a little programming break after the end of SoC (this was my summer of code project), I'm working on new versions of both evince and poppler patches. I think they should be ready in one week or two.
Hows it coming along Julien?
From today's IR:C: 19:13:04 <@jrb> julienr: looked at forms recently? 19:14:05 < julienr> jrb: yeah, completly rewrote the poppler-side, I'm currently trying to render UTF16 in Annots
I just posted a message to poppler mailing list with my patch and updated the evince-form branch : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2007-February/002485.html
Julien: I noticed on the Evince/Forms wiki page that the signature field is OpenPGP. Let me know if you need anything from the seahorse project to generate the correct form for that field or verify received signatures.
*** Bug 431294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Forms branch has been merged into trunk. It's still a preliminary version, there are some issues and things to do, but it's enough to start playing with (it requires poppler cvs head). I'm going to close this bug, so please file new bug reports for every specific problem you find with forms. Adam: signature fields are not supported by poppler yet, so any help on that side would be more than welcome :-) Julien: Thank you very much for your great work!!!