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Bug 767503 - [Adwaita:dark] While typing, font in forms is unreadable (white on white)
[Adwaita:dark] While typing, font in forms is unreadable (white on white)
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.20.x
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-06-10 17:28 UTC by Christian Stadelmann
Modified: 2018-05-22 16:41 UTC
See Also:
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Description Christian Stadelmann 2016-06-10 17:28:26 UTC 
Steps to reproduce:
1. have a PDF document with forms
2. set Gtk+ theme to Adwaita:dark (probably also affects any other dark Gtk+ theme)
3. open PDF document with forms
4. select any form
5. type

What happens:
During typing, your input is rendered in white font on white background and thus unreadable. After leaving the form, font is black on white background.

What should happen:
On white background, always use dark fonts.

Affected version:
evince-3.20.0-1.fc24.x86_64
poppler-0.41.0-1.fc24.x86_64
gtk3-3.20.6-1.fc24.x86_64
Comment 1 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2016-06-10 17:59:05 UTC 
Maybe another case of GTK+3.20 changes in CSS biting applications.

Bug 758793 may have patches to fix.

The main issue is bumping Evince to require Gtk+3.20, whereas Evince can run perfectly in previous versions.
Comment 2 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2016-09-29 15:13:21 UTC 
May you try with a newer version? This issue seems to be solved already.
Comment 3 Christian Stadelmann 2016-09-29 20:02:06 UTC 
Still present with 
gtk3-3.22.0-2.fc25.x86_64
evince-3.22.0-1.fc25.x86_64
poppler-0.45.0-2.fc25.x86_64

When editing an empty form, you don't see any font while typing.
When editing a form with text, you see the old content (in dark font) and white lines over it caused by the new content being drawn in white on top of the old content.
Comment 4 krinkodot22 2017-06-11 01:12:01 UTC 
A workaround for this is to enable View Options->Inverted Colours. Typed-in form text will still appear as white, but at least it will be on a dark background.
Comment 5 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 16:41:34 UTC 
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