Bug#482598: Does not enable editing forms

[Sven Arvidsson]

forwarded 482598 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=535143
thanks

On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 23:29 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> at
>    http://wwwmath.uni-landau.de/tutorials/pdfformulare/index.html
> is described how to create PDF forms that can be editied with a PDF viewer.
> Well, the article is in German, but essentially you could download the
> ZIP archive
>    http://wwwmath.uni-landau.de/tutorials/pdfformulare/pdfform.zip
> which contains LaTeX code and the resulting PDF which is an editable
> form - at lieast under AcroRead (Windows version, editing does also not
> work for me under Linux).  It would be great if Evince would support the
> editing function and finally also enable saving the edited PDF (which
> would be a real killer feature, because the free-beer AcroRead does
> not permit this.

Hi,

Thanks for the bug report. Evince does support editing forms in general.
The document in the link actually crashes in Evince 2.22, so it's
definitely a bug. I have forwarded it upstream.

Saving an edited form works in Evince 2.22 (with Poppler 0.8) if you use
the "Save a copy" feature.

-- 
Cheers,
Sven Arvidsson
http://www.whiz.se
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