Created attachment 25642 [details] PDF showing the problem described. poppler version is 0.10.5 When entering text into a multiline edit form field in a PDF document in landscape orientation, the form field text is rendered rotated at 90 degrees. This only occurs if there is actually text on more than one line (i.e., one line of text in a multiline form field is rendered properly) Note that text is oriented correctly when editing the form field, but as soon as you hit hide forms, it rotates. Note also that a PDF with a multiline form field that already contains multiple lines of text when it is opened in Okular renders properly, but as soon as that form field is edited in Okular, and then you hit hide forms, it rotates. To create the attached PDF, I opened a plain document in MS Word under Windows XP, changed the orientation under Page Setup, printed to PDF, and then opened the PDF file in Acrobat and added a single multiline form field. I then opened it in Okular under Kubuntu, and added text to the field. I then tried adding the text in Acrobat before opening in Okular (see second note above). To reproduce, open attached pdf in Okular. The text in the form field will be rendered correctly. Then hit "Show Forms" and put the cursor in the form field. You don't need to actually make any changes. Then hit "Hide Forms." The text now appears oriented at the right side of the form field, rotated 90 degrees to the right. I filed this in Okular, but was told that it is reproducible in Evince, and is probably therefore a poppler bug.
Created attachment 58239 [details] A real world form exhibiting the issue I am not sure if this is exactly the same issue, but one of the swiss employment office forms is impossible to fill because of this issue. Form is in a landscape orientation, and has a singnificant number of fields in it. It works nicely with Adobe Reader for Linux 9.4.7.
This is with poppler-0.18.0-2.fc16.x86_64 and evince-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64 on an up-to-date Fedora 16 installation. One of the last reasons I am keeping Adobe Reader around.
Created attachment 130394 [details] official French form with same issue Attached form has the same issue for the page which is in landscape mode. The page in portrait mode is fine.
(In reply to Frederic Crozat from comment #3) > Created attachment 130394 [details] > official French form with same issue > > Attached form has the same issue for the page which is in landscape mode. > The page in portrait mode is fine. The issue is only visible in Evince, not in poppler. Not sure if the bug is in the poppler backend or the application
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