GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 697605
Reopening PDF from Command Line Deletes All Entered Form Data
Last modified: 2018-05-22 15:03:32 UTC
I had several tax documents open. I wanted to bring one of them to the foreground, so I ran evince f1040.pdf from the command line. It opened a new copy of the document with all of the fields blank. This resulted in significant loss of work. What should happen instead is one of the following: An error that the document is already open Bringing the existing document to the foreground Opening a second copy of the document I'm trying to make this report this with restraint, but I lost several hours worth of work due to this bug. I'm leaving severity as "normal," but it should probably be higher considering how significant the impact can be.
Sorry, I should clarify; I'd edited a number of fields in the document. These were blank when reopening from the command line.
Affected Version: GNOME Document Viewer 3.8.0 Had the same problem, although not opening evince from the command line, but from chromium. I don't think the process which spawns evince matters. I even lost form data when opening the same document twice via the "File Open"-Dialog in evince itself. A fix would be nice to prevent data loss.
Easy to reproduce. 1. $ evince document-with-form.pdf & 2. Edit any field in the document 3. $ evince document-with-form.pdf & Current result: The document is reopened and the evince's window raised. Expected result: evince's window raised (that is, keeping the field forms untouched) FWIW, it is not a problem with f1040.pdf in particular.
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