GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 535143
Forms not editable / Crash
Last modified: 2011-05-18 03:57:05 UTC
[ Forwarded from http://bugs.debian.org/482598 ] The PDF in the zip archive from the URL below does not work in Evince. With 2.20 and Poppler 0.6 the document is displayed, but the forms is not editable. With 2.22 and Poppler 0.8 I get a crash. The document is properly displayed (and editable) in Acroread according to the original submitter. Full LaTeX code of the file is also available. http://wwwmath.uni-landau.de/tutorials/pdfformulare/pdfform.zip I'm guessing this is a Poppler bug? Backtrace was generated from '/usr/bin/evince' [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb6c0d720 (LWP 28213)] [New Thread 0xb699cb90 (LWP 28214)] 0xb7f88424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
+ Trace 198785
Thread 2 (Thread 0xb699cb90 (LWP 28214))
It doesn't crash anymore with poppler from git master. However, the form fields still don't work. I'd say it's a problem in the document itslef, since the root Fields array is empty: 4 0 obj << /Fields [] /DR << /Font << /ZaDb 2 0 R /Helv 3 0 R >> >> /DA (/Helv 10 Tf 0 g ) /NeedAppearances true >> endobj but it works with acroread though.
*** Bug 536562 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Duplicate bug 536562 contains a testcase for this crash.
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The PDF in bug 536562 attachment 112110 [details] doesn't crash my evince-2.24. I'd appreciate if someone could compile a crashing PDF from the LaTeX Sources mentioned above.
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Alright, it seems as if the document itself does not really look like it makers have thought it would. The new version (for some old values of new) of hyperref seems to fix this issue. From the ChangeLog: http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/mirrors/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/ChangeLog 2008-09-13 6.78j Heiko Oberdiek * 6.78j * Forms/hpdftex.def: Missing /Fields entry is set in the same way as it is done by the other drivers. Alas, Ubuntu still ships texlive-2007. I thus haven't tested the new version. But any other following duplicate reporting that poppler/evince doesn't handle Forms, please try to upgrade your hyperref package. It'd be nice if poppler/evince could handle the form as Acroread does though.
(In reply to comment #24) > It'd be nice if poppler/evince could handle the form as Acroread does though. We are discussing this in poppler mailing list: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2009-November/005241.html
this dont crash again, Neither is there more duplicates with a newer evince version. closing with Obsolete