Evince Save copy no longer works as expected

[James Freer]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2013, NoOp wrote:

> On 01/07/2013 09:06 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> I have a PDF with some fields that I can fill in. When I had Ubuntu
>> 10.10 I could fill in those, then Save copy, close Evince, then open
>> the file again and continue filling those fields.
>> 
>> Since then I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 (or rather installed from
>> scratch) and not this function no longer works. No matter what I typed
>> in those fields, the PDF is saved in the same state it was when I
>> opened it, which I rather pointless if you ask me.
>> Is this a bug that should be reported or is it a new fantastic
>> feature? Or does this only happen to me?
>> 
>> I can provide an example file in case somebody don't know what I'm
>> talking about…
>> 
>> 
>> Johnny Rosenberg

I've only used Evince for viewing. I wonder if your case is why a number of 
distros have dropped Evince and use another viewer. One thing i've not 
understood with linux viewer's is embedded fonts. In windoze one used to embed 
or not and that may be connected with your case. I'm switching to emacs for 
most things now but that only reads pdf it has made not from Abiword or 
LO-writer.

In your case i wonder what has changed in the pdf format... beyond my knowledge 
but seems likely to me.

james