[Okular-devel] [Bug 267350] filling out a PDF form saves data to some file i ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/

[John McCabe-Dansted]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan at cox.net> wrote:
>> I think the real solution is to fix poppler so store the annotations in
>> the Document according to the PDF standard  (and use one of the adhoc
>> tricks to store annotations in PS files). This is what every user
...
> You're probably right, but AFAIK poppler isn't a kde developed library.
> So in that case the bug should be RESOLVED/UPSTREAM.  Meanwhile, anything
> okular could do without that functionality would remain off-standard, and
> poppler's lack of the feature might explain why okular did its own
> workaround.

Now that Okular supports printing forms, one work around would be to
have a convenient Print To PDF option under Save As. You presumably
wouldn't be able to edit the form further after using this though.

> So I guess that's another out for the okular folks if they want to take
> it, simply point to upstream, and say they'll consider support for doing
> it the standard way once poppler implements the standard functionality
> for them to use.  Meanwhile, they can continue to handle it how they do
> (no change) or possibly do something with ksecrets or the like.  But in

When Okular is used as a web plugin for Konqueror, It would make sense
to keep the current behaviour, and inherit settings from the
webbrowser, I guess.

-- 
John C. McCabe-Dansted
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