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

[Yuri Chornoivan]

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

--- Comment #3 from Yuri Chornoivan <yurchor at ukr.net> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
Thanks for your proposals. I will try to implement all necessary changes.

> 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.

Can you try to uncheck "Obey DRM limitations" (do not know if this is available
in Ubuntu but please try) as it is explained in docs?

http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdegraphics/okular/configgeneral.html

> 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.

Personally, I do not like this "For some PDFs". It works for all non-XFA PDFs
here. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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

I might be wrong but it seems that this is not true for the current versions.
Please correct me if I'm wrong but Okular can work with properly encrypted PDFs
from this page:

https://www.setasign.de/products/pdf-php-solutions/setapdf-stamper/demos/stamp-already-encrypted-pdf/

The results (with annotations) can then be opened in Foxit Reader, mupdf and
Adobe Reader in my system (Mageia 3, Okular 0.17.60, Poppler 0.24.2).

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

Ok. Will be added.

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