Bug#777657: evince: hides dropdown menus in pdf forms until they are clicked on
Joris Mooij
j.m.mooij at uva.nl
Wed Feb 11 06:54:08 UTC 2015
Package: evince
Version: 3.14.1-1
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
I was pleasantly surprised to see that evince can now edit and save pdf forms
(especially since Adobe apparently no longer provides a linux version of their
Acrobat Reader).
However, I encountered the following usability issue when editing a pdf form:
certain dropdown menus cannot be recognized (visually) as such until they are
clicked on.
I don't know if this is an evince bug or a poppler bug, nor whether it only
occurs with specific pdf forms.
I do know that Acrobat Reader on Windows and on Macs does not have this issue
with this particular pdf form: there, the dropdown menus are recognizable as
such by a little arrow / triangle on their right-hand side, already before the
user clicks on them.
I've attached a screen shot of the form which shows a series of dropdown menus;
I've only clicked on the first one (so that one has become visible), the others
are hardly recognizable as dropdown menus.
Best wishes,
Joris
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages evince depends on:
ii evince-common 3.14.1-1
ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1
ii libc6 2.19-13
ii libcairo-gobject2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1
ii libevdocument3-4 3.14.1-1
ii libevview3-3 3.14.1-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+b1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.14.5-1
ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.14.1-2
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3
ii libsecret-1-0 0.18-1+b1
ii libxml2 2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii shared-mime-info 1.3-1
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages evince recommends:
ii dbus-x11 1.8.12-3
ii gvfs 1.22.2-1
Versions of packages evince suggests:
ii nautilus 3.14.1-2
ii poppler-data 0.4.7-1
ii unrar 1:5.0.10-1
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