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

[Warren Turkal]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267350

           Summary: filling out a PDF form saves data to some file i
                    ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/
           Product: okular
           Version: 0.11.1
          Platform: Debian unstable
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: PDF backend
        AssignedTo: okular-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: wt at penguintechs.org


Created an attachment (id=57582)
 --> (http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=57582)
IRS form W9

Version:           0.11.1 (using KDE 4.5.3) 
OS:                Linux

I just realized that Okular is storing my form data in a file that is not the
PDF itself. This file is hard to find and means that my social security number
is stored in some random file on my machine if I fill out an IRS form W9 with
Okular. This seems less than ideal from a UX perspective.

I could not find a way to delete the data short of deleting the files from the
command line. Not storing the data with the PDF is really user hostile in my
opinion.

Also, when I "Save As..." a PDF with filled out forms, only the first field
appears to be saved in the new PDF. For the record, Evince appears to have this
same bug. This may be an indication of a bug in the poppler library.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open fw9.pdf IRS form.
2. View forms
3. Type in data
4. Close Okular.
5. look in ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/

Actual Results:  
There are files containing potentially private data in that directory, and it's
hard for a casual user to delete them.

Expected Results:  
The user should be able to "Save as..." to a new file and just have a copy of
the PDF with the filled in form data.

OS: Linux (x86_64) release 2.6.37-1-amd64
Compiler: cc

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