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Bug 640185 - Evince can't save digitally signed forms after filling
Evince can't save digitally signed forms after filling
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
: 687622 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-01-21 14:37 UTC by José Aliste
Modified: 2018-05-22 14:07 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description José Aliste 2011-01-21 14:37:46 UTC 
If you fill a PDF form that has been digitally signed, Evince can no longer save the Form. This is not surprising since we can't sign the modified document (We are not the original author of the pdf!)... We should have a work around for this and save the modified form unsigned (or maybe it is possible to sign only part of docs? If so, we could try to do that and keep the form signed by the original author and add the mods without signing) and we should probably provide an info box for the user to tell him that the saved copy won't be signed...
Comment 1 José Aliste 2011-01-21 14:40:20 UTC 
Or maybe we should just refuse to save a copy (because it would not be signed) and tell the user he should decrypt the pdf before modifying it?
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2011-01-21 17:07:40 UTC 
Evince should _never_ refuse to save-a-copy. 

Warning about the issue is however warranted; maybe just adding a label in the file chooser (gtk_file_chooser_set_extra_widget) would be enough, to avoid an annoying dialogue.
Comment 3 Hanno Böck 2011-12-04 15:59:35 UTC 
May I suggest that you raise the priority for this? I just spend about an hour filling a form and then realizing that there's no way I can save my work to continue it later...
Comment 4 José Aliste 2011-12-04 18:01:18 UTC 
Unfortunately it is not about priorities, but about lacking man-power. we need someone that steps up and contributes the code. :)
Comment 5 Hanno Böck 2011-12-04 18:09:16 UTC 
As this can cause data loss, I'd suggest that as long as filling out forms with signatures doesn't work, it should at least show a warning in the first place or disallow filling the form completely.
Comment 6 José Aliste 2012-11-05 10:39:51 UTC 
*** Bug 687622 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Simon Harhues 2012-11-05 10:55:12 UTC 
Other bugs also dealing with signed documents:
#614929
and for the underlying poppler: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16770
Comment 8 Simon Harhues 2012-11-05 10:55:55 UTC 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=614929 (as link in first try didn't work)
Comment 9 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 14:07:48 UTC 
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