GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 665581
Cannot fill some fields of a PDF form (from a big French assurance company)
Last modified: 2018-05-22 14:25:54 UTC
Created attachment 202798 [details] Problematic form on page 3 of the document First reported here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300948#c32 Copied in a new bug as requested on the mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2011-December/msg00001.html With Document Viewer 3.2.1 in Ubuntu 11.10 The attached PDF document as some fields that cannot be filled with Evince wheras it just works with Adobe Reader. Very annoying because it is a major French assurance company which provide this form.
Created attachment 202800 [details] screenshoot of the problematic field on ADOBE READER (on page 3 of the document) This screenshot demonstrate that there is no problem to fill the field with Adobe Reader.
The text you can't enter is not in the form, but instead the text is a free-text annotation, which is not supported by evince.
So does it means that there is no plan to implement this in Evince, and we should explain to the MACIF that they should modify their document and avoid the use of "free-text annotation" if they wanted that Linux users are able to fill it?
no, it means that we don't have enough man power to fix all our bugs, and that unfortunately, you are forced to use Adobe reader to fill your forms for the time being.
Thanks for the feedback, it is still great to know that this is being considered for the future. Hope we will soon see some activities on that bug.
Hello, Thank you Vincent to have report this bug in another place. Working in a association, I could see that this kind of bug is common. Official document from the Estate cannot be modify by Evince and, if I understand, your man power is not enough to fix all bugs. I hope they would be, in the future, some great responsible which could allow us to have more possibilities and more ressources to solve incompatbility bugs between non-free and free softwares. Best regards
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