saving a copy of a pdf form deletes all content excepting filled fields

[Emmanuel DA MOTA]

Binary package hint: evince

Ubuntu 8.10
evince 2.24.1

i have to fill a pdf form, when i save a copy of this file whitout filling any field then all the content is save. When i save a copy with one ore more fields filled, only filled fields are saved and all other content is lost.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

The PDF is encrypted ( /Encrypt 954 0 R ) and we don't take that into account it, so that's why the rest of the document "disappears", with

iff --git a/poppler/PDFDoc.cc b/poppler/PDFDoc.cc
index 19bb933..6c79fb6 100644
--- a/poppler/PDFDoc.cc
+++ b/poppler/PDFDoc.cc
@@ -836,7 +836,7 @@ void PDFDoc::writeTrailer (Guint uxrefOffset, int uxrefSize, OutStream* outStr,
   obj1.initString(new GooString((const char*)digest, 16));

   //create ID array
- Object obj2,obj3,obj4;
+ Object obj2,obj3,obj4,obj5;
   obj2.initArray(xref);

   if (incrUpdate) {
@@ -868,6 +868,12 @@ void PDFDoc::writeTrailer (Guint uxrefOffset, int uxrefSize, OutStream* outStr,
   if (incrUpdate) {
     obj1.initInt(xref->getLastXRefPos());
     trailerDict->set("Prev", &obj1);
+
+ xref->getTrailerDict()->dictLookupNF("Encrypt", &obj5);
+ if (!obj5.isNull())
+ {
+ trailerDict->set("Encrypt", &obj5);
+ }
   }
   outStr->printf( "trailer\r\n");
   writeDictionnary(trailerDict, outStr);

the effect is exactly the opposite, the PDF is not destroyed, but our added things don't get rendered because they are not encrypted.

We might want to just "return false" if the PDF is encrypted, at least don't destroy the docuemnt, what do you say?

[Albert Astals Cid (aacid)]

Changing the subject, for now i've disabled saving when the object has an Encrypt, we need to work on writing encrypted data.

[Emmanuel DA MOTA (vilain-mamuth)]

Binary package hint: evince

Ubuntu 8.10
evince 2.24.1

i have to fill a pdf form, when i save a copy of this file whitout filling any field then all the content is save. When i save a copy with one ore more fields filled, only filled fields are saved and all other content is lost.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic i686

[Emmanuel DA MOTA (vilain-mamuth)]

copy of the source field whithout modification

[Emmanuel DA MOTA (vilain-mamuth)]

copy of the source file with one modification

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

confirmed, will look upstream, thanks for the report.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=561356

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

according to upstream this is a poppler issue, reassigning, thanks.

[Sami Kankaristo (sami-kankaristo)]

I needed a fix for this, so I made the attached bash script. Open your PDF files with this script and it will decrypt the file (overwriting the original) and open the decrypted file. Forms on decrypted PDFs can be saved.

I wish Evince did the same, if saving encrypted data isn't possible.

Originally posted here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/492959/comments/19

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