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Bug 477841 - Form reset action support
Form reset action support
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: PDF
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on: 693645
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-09-17 18:30 UTC by Michael Monreal
Modified: 2018-05-22 13:18 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.19/2.20



Description Michael Monreal 2007-09-17 18:30:02 UTC
I just googled around for pdf form demo files. I found for example this:

http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/winery.pdf

Evince does not let me edit the form fields in this PDF at all.

On the same page, there is

http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/pcpurchase.pdf

..which actually lets me fill in the fields, but the drowpdown menus only show up correctly in a huge zoom level, they are hard to tell as dropdowns at 100% zoom.

Theres also this one:

http://www.windjack.com/WindJack/Examples/MultipartFormWizard_Demo2.pdf

which seems to work mostly fine, but the buttons (reset don't work)
Comment 1 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-09-19 13:22:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> I just googled around for pdf form demo files. I found for example this:
> 
> http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/winery.pdf
> 
> Evince does not let me edit the form fields in this PDF at all.

hmm, it seems that some fields have maxlen = 0 and others are read only. I'm not sure whether it's evince or poppler problem. I'll look into it. 

> On the same page, there is
> 
> http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/pcpurchase.pdf
> 
> ..which actually lets me fill in the fields, but the drowpdown menus only show
> up correctly in a huge zoom level, they are hard to tell as dropdowns at 100%
> zoom.
>

widgets are resized to fit the form field size. It looks good for me. Maybe it depends on the gtk+ theme you are using. 

> Theres also this one:
> 
> http://www.windjack.com/WindJack/Examples/MultipartFormWizard_Demo2.pdf
> 
> which seems to work mostly fine, but the buttons (reset don't work)
> 

Yes, reset actions are not supported by poppler yet. 

Thank you very much for the bug report, these use cases are very useful. 
Comment 2 Carlos Garcia Campos 2007-09-29 14:42:22 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> (In reply to comment #0)
> > I just googled around for pdf form demo files. I found for example this:
> > 
> > http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/winery.pdf
> > 
> > Evince does not let me edit the form fields in this PDF at all.
> 
> hmm, it seems that some fields have maxlen = 0 and others are read only. I'm
> not sure whether it's evince or poppler problem. I'll look into it. 
> 

Ok, it's definitely a evince bug, I've just fixed it in svn trunk.

Leaving this bug open because of the reset action issue and changing the summary accordingly. 
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2013-02-18 02:46:39 UTC
FWIW, the document also have another button whose type is JavaScript.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 13:18:38 UTC
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