[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 326027] Okular Handbook misleading on form fill-out

[skierpage]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326027

--- Comment #2 from skierpage <skierpage at gmail.com> ---
OK, so it's more complicated than I thought!  I repeat, there's no indication
whether I have "the appropriate Poppler", neither KDE nor Okular tells me. I
have a libpoppler28 version 0.20.5-1ubuntu3 installed in Kubuntu, maybe my "PDF
Backend Version 0.6.3" uses it. 

I tried another form http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/fw4.pdf and File > Save As
did seem to store form data into the new file and not in a separate pdf.xml. 
The first PDF I mention above is encrypted (though password-less), maybe that's
why its Okular's File > Save is disabled.

So, based on this, the Okular handbook "Forms" page could say something like

If you fill out a PDF form, Okular saves your form field entries in a file in 
$HOME/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata. If you rename the PDF file, Okular will
not be able to show this form data. For some PDFs Okular's File > Save As...
command can save your form field entries within the new PDF file.

Add under the File > Save As... documentation: "This menu item is disabled if
you are viewing an encrypted PDF."

Add under the File > Export As > Document Archive  "This does not include form
field entries."

I think these changes would improve the documentation, but what do I know ;-)

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