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

[Yuri via KDE Bugzilla]

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

--- Comment #41 from Yuri <yuri at tsoft.com> ---
(In reply to Carsten Gräser from comment #40)
> Since I stumbled about this again: The following minor changes would
> increase usability of forms a lot since they make the behaviour of Okular
> more transparent.
> 
> a) Add a menu entry "save form data" that makes Okular store the data in the
> file itself.
> b) When the user tries to close a filled in form without explicitly saving
> it: Warn the user that the form data is not stores in the file (but only
> cached somewhere else) and ask if she/he want's to save now.
> c) Always give precedence to data saved in the file itself.

Carsten, the problem is that there is no code that saves to a file. There
should be two choices:
* Saving to a pdf file itself
* Saving to a separate pdf file (according to the pdf spec)
But somebody for some unknown reason implemented writing it in the proprietary
format into ~/.kde/share/apps/okular/docdata/ that makes okular unusable for
filling forms. Nobody needs the function to save forms under ~/.kde

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