Hey Chris, thanks for the info.
f1040--2008.pdf has the same issues with evince, probably that's related to the way it was created. but the newer versions 2009-2013 works pretty fine. Cheers, althaser On 23 September 2014 19:54, Chris Knadle <chris.kna...@coredump.us> wrote: > On Monday, September 22, 2014 08:28:45 Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: > > On 09/21/2014 01:29 PM, Pedro Beja wrote: > > > should we reassign this bug to okular now? > > > > > > because the evince version works as expected since upstream fixed it. > > > > I just tested with evince 3.12.2-1 and okular 4:4.14.0-2 > > > > evince does work as expected. > > > > okular loads f1040.pdf (from the 2013 tax year) with a yellow banner > > that says: > > > > --------- > > This document has XFA forms, which are currently *unsupported* > > [Show forms] [x] > > --------- > > > > clicking the "Show forms" button does indeed produce functional checkbox > > UI elements that appear to work (and textentry UI elements where there > > are textentries). Printing the file to a PDF from okular after checking > > some of these boxes and filling in some textarea elements produces a > > formless PDF with my filled in responses. > > > > so i think (despite okular's warning banner) both evince and okular are > > doing the right thing here now. > > > > --dkg > > I'm adding additional info (without reopening the bug). > > I just tested okular 4:4.14.1-1 using the f1040 PDF form from several > years. > For the year 2008 okular does not print information put into the fill-in > form, > but it /does/ for the f1040 for later years. I think this means there is a > fundamental difference in the f1040--2008.pdf than for newer years. > > http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/f1040--2008.pdf > > [Change the year in the URL above to get the form for other years.] > > But regardless since Okular seems to work for newer years than 2008 it > seems > to me like this bug can be considered fixed. > > Thanks. > > -- Chris > > -- > > Chris Knadle > chris.kna...@coredump.us >
