I have a PDF form that provably works in 20.04's version of Evince (poppler) but does not in 22.04, so came to search for an existing bug.
I can confirm this patch fixes the issue for me too on 22.04. I built it now at https://launchpad.net/~timo-jyrinki/+archive/ubuntu/poppler-jammy and confirmed it works. Annoyingly publishing is taking ages so the PPA repository is not ready yet, but I downloaded the debs manually from the amd64 build for testing. Since I happen to be a Ubuntu developer too, I now uploaded it with the correct version number to the jammy's queue https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jammy/+queue?queue_state=1&queue_text=poppler - let's see if it will get accepted eventually in the proposed SRUs from there. If it will, this bug will be updated asking for a verification of the fix by using the exact version from proposed to get it forward. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to poppler in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1980836 Title: Regression in Ubuntu 22.04: Content of form field stored invisibly Status in Poppler: Fix Released Status in evince package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in poppler package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Evince on Ubuntu 22.04 is not able to handle some PDF forms correctly anymore that it was able to handle on Ubuntu 21.10 and on Ubuntu 20.04. The symptom is that one can edit the form content and also save it, but that the entered text is only visible when the form field is focused and in edit mode. Otherwise the text it is invisible, also on printouts. Such bugs have been reported against Evince for a long time (e.g., https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/poppler/+bug/265033) but I am reporting this as a new bug because for the current form with which I am experiencing this it is a regression. I have attached the problematic form with two form fields filled out, one in the upper left corner and the big one in the lower half. I have produced this by taking the original, empty form (produced by somebody else) and first opened it in Evince 41.4, which I have installed from the snap package (revision 1017) on Ubuntu 22.04. I entered text in the upper left field and saved the form. Then I opened the PDF in Evince 42.3 from the apt package of Ubuntu 22.04 and entered text in the big field and saved the form. Evince 3.36 on Ubuntu 20.04 has the same (correct) behavior as Evince 41.4. When I open the PDF again, only the text in the first field is visible. The text in the second field is visible only if I click into the field. The visibility of the field contents is the same for Evince 41.4 (snap), Evince 42.3 (apt), and Okular 20.12.3 (snap). So it seems that the problem is with Evince 42.3 incorrectly saving the field content, not with displaying it. Firefox shows and prints the content of both fields, though. Note that I cannot switch back to Evince 41 because for some other forms that I have the exact same problem happens only with the old version and the new version fixes it. So it seems that something changed that fixed it for some forms and broke it for others. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.04 Package: evince 42.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.15.0-40.43-generic 5.15.35 Uname: Linux 5.15.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu82.1 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Wed Jul 6 14:32:27 2022 InstallationDate: Installed on 2021-11-26 (222 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 21.10 "Impish Indri" - Release amd64 (20211012) RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks. Snap.Changes: ID Status Spawn Bereit Zusammenfassung 137 Done 2022-07-06T12:48:33+02:00 2022-07-06T12:48:41+02:00 Installiere "evince" Snap SourcePackage: evince UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to jammy on 2022-06-22 (13 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/poppler/+bug/1980836/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
