Evince Save copy no longer works as expected

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2013/1/8 James Freer <jessejazza3.uk at gmail.com>:
> 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.

The file that made me notice this in the first place is the same file
that worked with the older Evince in Ubuntu 10.10 (which I don't have
anymore, so I can't find its version – should be 2.8.something, I
guess). The PDF file itself was downloaded somewhere. It's an empty
avi that's supposed to be sent to the bank, so it needs to look right…

So, in Evince in Ubuntu 10.10 I could just enter everything in the
avi, save it for printing it later and give it to its receiver who
then give it to the bank and pay…
I can do that now too, I just print it to a file and print that file,
but if something is broken in Evince, it should be fixed so no
workarounds is necessary.


Johnny Rosenberg

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