[Okular-devel] Okular PDF Froms going mad

[Igor Mitrenko]

2011/9/17 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>

> A Divendres, 16 de setembre de 2011, Igor Mitrenko vàreu escriure:
> > Hello.
>
> Hi
>
> > Firstly, Okular is the best or one of the best PDF reader (although I've
> > tried many different, including propietary), so I'd like to thank
> > development team for that. Good job.
>
> Thanks :-)
>
> >
> > But there is a problem, or may be even several problems with PDF forms.
> > Despite of forms works in general, they are able to be turned on and off,
> > edited and so on, it's very sad that positioning and redrawing of forms
> work
> > in very strange manner:
> > Them could be placed above or beneath actual (visible) position, even
> from
> > previous page, could ignore control and stay after switching off.
> > 1) forms _are_ switched off, but still displayed (although they were
> removed
> > once screenshot program window popped up):
> > http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/7974/1before.png
> > 2) forms switched on, but misplaced:
> > http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/9315/2before.png
> > 3) forms are hidden again, but sitll not removed (in fact those are form
> > from _previous_ page drawn on the current page):
> > http://img215.imageshack.us/img215/54/2after.png
> >
> > Finally, it seems a bit strange that font used in forms differs from
> final
> > document (in my case it has rather different font face and size). It
> seems
> > possible to catch font from document and use it in appropriate forms.
> >
> > So I'd be happy if you fix it or even guide me how I can fix it by
> myself. I
> > am a python developer with not so strong c/c++ background, but I think I
> > could get it. But I need some basic instructions, like what and where is
> > better to search in source files.
>
> Unfortunately fixing this stuff is not trivial at all. Moreover you are
> noticing various different effects here.
>
> Forms misplacing and misrendering are possibly somewhere in
> okular/ui/pageview.* or okular/ui/formwidgets.*
>
> Thank you. I'll try it.

About the font thing, I am not sure what you want, do you want that while
> you
> edit the form contents the same font is used that for when is rendered
> without
> the input widget?
>
> Exactly.


> Albert
>
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