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Bug 697605 - Reopening PDF from Command Line Deletes All Entered Form Data
Reopening PDF from Command Line Deletes All Entered Form Data
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.4.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2013-04-09 05:31 UTC by losttaxinfo
Modified: 2018-05-22 15:03 UTC
See Also:
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Description losttaxinfo 2013-04-09 05:31:27 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.
Comment 1 losttaxinfo 2013-04-09 06:11:08 UTC 
Sorry, I should clarify; I'd edited a number of fields in the document.  These were blank when reopening from the command line.
Comment 2 christian.roeder 2013-05-06 06:57:02 UTC 
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.
Comment 3 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2013-05-07 17:37:15 UTC 
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.
Comment 4 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-22 15:03:32 UTC 
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