PDFArranger Invalid Form Fields in Concatenated Tax Forms
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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pdfarranger (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
With Evince-
With PDF-Arranger 1.4.2-1:
[+] t2210-f1040.pdf
[+] t2210-1040s1.pdf
[+] t2210-1040s2.pdf
Export (down-arrow icon) t2210-tax-cat2.pdf - popped up warnings in dialog box:
The metadata field /Accessibility with value 'structured; tagged' has no XMP equivalent, so it was discarded
The metadata field /Form with value 'fillable' has no XMP equivalent, so it was discarded
The produced PDF file is invalid [1][2]. Although a warning is shown, the message in no way makes it clear to the user that some viewers will show invalid amounts in blank fields in a tax form!
Display of t2210-tax-cat2.pdf page 3 (f1040 s1):
* chromium-
* Adobe Acrobat Reader: reportedly [2] all blank.
* evince-
* firefox-104: correct (lines 1, 3, 9, 14 only)
Display of t2210-tax-cat2.pdf page 4 (f1040 s2):
* chromium-
* evince-
* firefox-104: correctly blank except lines 4 & 10.
PDFArranger 1.8.2 is reported [1] to not repro the issue, but Ubuntu-20.04-LTS has the 1.4 version.
Tested on Ubuntu-
[1] https:/
[2] https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: pdfarranger 1.4.2-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-125-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckR
CurrentDesktop: Unity:Unity7:ubuntu
Date: Sat Oct 22 20:12:35 2022
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-21 (1431 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: pdfarranger
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2022-07-09 (105 days ago)