[Okular-devel] [Bug 161327] Filing out forms does not work

[Bas Roufs]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161327


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--- Comment #9 from Bas Roufs <BasRoufs gmail com>  2009-05-05 16:10:20 ---
Difficulties to fill in forms with Okular in the framework of Kubuntu 9.04 and
KDE 4.2.2.

Additional information with respect to Bug 161327 – Filing out forms does not
work.

Bas Roufs, Utrecht, NL, BasRoufs at gmail.com, 5 May 2009. 

Summary
The Dutch chamber of commerce uses PDF forms for all kinds of purposes:
registration of legal entities, companies, etc. Via Okular, I do not manage to
fill in all of these forms. Additionally, I experience difficulties to
correctly save and reopen data filled in in forms which can be filled in by
means of Okular. The only way I have found so far to correctly do all this, is
using 'Adobe Reader 9'.  However, I would prefer to use Okular for such
purposes as soon as the bug(s) with respect to them have been resolved. 
Together with this attachment, I submit 2 other attachments to the bug report:
2 examples of the forms of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, one of them in
English. 

Here below at this page, I share with you my vision on a certain priority
rating: which problems need to be solved first, which ones can be dealt with
later? 


Priority 1: impossibility to fill in a certain type of forms.
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So far, I do not manage at all to fill in a certain type of forms. See examples
 below, pp. 4-7. 
 In Adobe, it is possible to fill them in.

Priority 2: impossibility to correctly save, close and reopen data of forms
filled in
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Difficulties to correctly save, close and reopen a PDF document with forms
already filled in.  In Adobe in combination it is possible to save data given
in the forms in this specific form. 

Priority 3: grey field surrounding the forms while filling them in
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Grey fields surround the forms, when Okular is in the 'show forms' mode, needed
to fill in the forms. As a matter of consequence, you cannot see exactly which
field you are filling in, WHILE you are filling in. The thumbnails on the left
hand side are visible, though not big enough to check such details. On the
other hand, it is possible to easily and quickly change between the 'show
forms' and 'hide forms' modes via a specific button right above. That's why,
this problem is only nr. 3 in my priority rating - I attach more importance to
the problems mentioned under 1 and 2. 
In Adobe, it is possible to fill in the forms, while seeing their surroundings
at the same moment. 

Screenshot examples: see submitted attachment "Okular screenshots", pp. 2-7.

I hope thisa additional report will help to resolve the bug(s) dealt with here.
Respectfully yours,

Bas Roufs.

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