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

[Aaron Wolf]

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

--- Comment #31 from Aaron Wolf <wolftune at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to comment #30)
> (In reply to comment #29)
> > This is obnoxious. My partner sent me a file with forms filled. I changed
> > them. There's NO WAY to keep having editable forms and send her back the
> > file with the changes!
> > 
> > I tried "save as" and still get the old data there. I had to do it as a
> > print, which means she then manually updates in her program.
> > 
> > This situation is horrible.
> 
> This is not the way to report bugs. Please give developers some information
> about your system (name and version), version of Okular and version of
> Poppler libraries (can be determined with "pdftops -v" command in console or
> using your favorite package manager).
> 
> BTW, just works here (even for XFA documents if Foxit reader used).

Sorry, I just assumed this was the same as the original bug, i.e. an
intentional and flawed design. I didn't think this was behaving differently
from intended, I thought the issue was simply that the intention was a bad one.

If you intend it to actually work reasonably (which I'd hope), and it is
something about my system, well: I'm on KXStudio, which is a derivative of
Ubuntu. I'm using standard KDE 4.11.2 and Okular 0.17.2 and pdftops 0.18.4.

To clarify: if I open and change the forms myself, they persist on my machine.
If I send the form as an e-mail to someone else, they lose my form changes. If
I "save as" on my own machine, the new file reverts to the old form data and
loses my changes even on my machine. Note that this is a case where the file I
got from someone else started with some form data already, entered in some
program other than Okular, and I was changing it.

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