[okular] [Bug 305915] Submit button not displayed in PDF form opened in Okular

[Uwe Stöhr]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305915

--- Comment #15 from Uwe Stöhr <uwestoehr at lyx.org> ---
> Let me make sure i understand you, since the feature is not useful for you, you think it should be disabled for everyone?

You misunderstood me. Maybe an example of my experience as a developer: For LyX
under Windows we implemented support to use EMF and WMF images in LaTeX
documents. It worked for my testcases and files I used. But it did not work for
many users. So in fact I had to disable the support. I was not happy but it was
the right decision because too many users were disappointed because we said it
could handle such files but in real life too many images failed. (Meanwhile we
found the solution to let Inkscape do the conversion and now it works properly
and I could re-enable support for these image types.)

I proposed the harsh way concerning PDF forms because it is not that there is a
particular bug but the basic features of PDF forms are missing. I mean what
helps me to fill out a form if I cannot submit the FDF file to the
administration? Moreover, many, many PDF forms have radiobuttons to choose e.g.
the sex, but this very basic feature is also not working, see bug
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382857

So please don't be upset, I never stated that Okular is not a good program at
all. it displays even very large PDFs flawlessly. It is only about PDF forms
thta don't work for many real life applications. Evince has by the way the same
problems and I reported these bugs there too.

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