GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 627024
non ASCII characters are not shown in text fields in PDF forms
Last modified: 2013-02-18 03:25:11 UTC
Created attachment 167935 [details] form made with openoffice.org non ASCII characters are not showed in text fields in PDF forms when I try to fill form it does not show Arabic or Hebrew (RTL) characters. it only show them while the mouse cursor on the text field and the second I click some where else the text disappears. and it's not shown in printing either. every thing works well with Acrobat reader on W$
in russian is the same bug
dupe of bug 536812?
I'm not sure if the other bug talking about printing problem only. In my case as soon as I finish typing the text disappear. It will show again when I click in the text box and disappear again if I clicked outside. Input text does not print here either. The attachment has a text box with an Arabic world in it if some one wants to check.
I confirm this bug (or missing feature). It not only affects Arabic or Hebrew characters! I tried to insert a "line separator" (Unicode character '\u2028') into a text field of a PDF form. In Gnome (e.g. in a Terminal) this works by pressing Ctrl+Shift+u 2 0 2 8. In acroread it works similar (just keep pressing Ctrl+Shift while typing the digits). Evince displays a PDF form with '\u2028' as expected. But a '\u2028' cannot be inserted and is even removed whenever the containing text field is edited somehow! For details about why and how PDF forms may contain '\u2028' or '\u2029' see http://blogs.adobe.com/formfeed/2009/01/paragraph_breaks_in_plain_text.html
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 536812 ***