GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 785169
evince can't open US gov't I9 forms
Last modified: 2017-07-20 13:44:35 UTC
Created attachment 356039 [details] screenshot showing evince's rendering of the i9 pdf file evince-3.22.1-3.fc25.x86_64 The I9 is a US gov't form that people have to fill out to verify their employability when they get hired into a job. When assisting an intern in filling this out, I noticed evince cannot open the main I9 form available on the US govt site. Here is the file: https://www.uscis.gov/system/files_force/files/form/i-9.pdf?download=1 When I try to open the file in evince, it says: Please wait... If this message is not eventually replaced by the proper contents of the document, your PDF viewer may not be able to display this type of document. You can upgrade to the latest version of Adobe Reader for Windows®, Mac, or Linux® by visiting http://www.adobe.com/go/reader_download. For more assistance with Adobe Reader visit http://www.adobe.com/go/acrreader. Windows is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Mac is a trademark of Apple Inc., registered in the United States and other countries. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. (Website is: https://www.uscis.gov/i-9)
This is because poppler, the PDF library used by evince, does not support XFA forms. Poppler has an open bug report for this at https://bugs.freedesktop.org/14265.
Oh, thanks Jason! if it's just noise of course, feel free to close this bug. Thanks for the reference to the poppler bug!