Public bug reported: Binary package hint: pdftk
The generate_fdf command appears not to properly extract checkbox fields, as merging the extracted FDF back in with fill_form changes the values in the PDF. Extracting and then merging the FDF information without editing it should result in an unchanged document. To verify: $ wget http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf $ pdftk f1040.pdf generate_fdf output f1040.fdf $ pdftk f1040.pdf fill_form f1040.fdf output f1040-fill.pdf $ evince f1040{,-fill}.pdf Checkboxes (some of them actually radio buttons, some of them plain checkboxes) in f1040-fill.pdf will be checked; the corresponding fields in f1040.pdf are not marked. I don't know exactly which stage of the process isn't working, but my best guess is that checkbox and radio button fields aren't being extracted properly. In the file, fields are labeled either (with numbers in place of #s) f#_#(0) or c#_#(0). Putting values in the f-fields causes them to show up in the form, but putting values in the c-fields does not. Additionally, while the f-field sections in the FDF look like this (all FDF excerpts were manually converted to ASCII; see bug 192398): << /V () /T (f2_20\(0\)) >> the c-fields look like this: << /V / /T (c2_13\(0\)) >> I don't think this is a valid field entry, though I'm not familiar with FDF syntax. I am running pdftk 1.40-2ubuntu3 on Ubuntu Dapper. ** Affects: pdftk (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- generate_fdf followed by fill_form changes checkbox fields https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/192410 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
