Bug 106840

Summary: PDF form fields appear blank, but contain data
Product: poppler Reporter: Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo+bfdo>
Component: glib frontendAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
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Attachments: PDF Test case (Form with hidden data)

Description Germán Poo-Caamaño 2018-06-06 13:46:59 UTC 
Created attachment 140054 [details]
PDF Test case (Form with hidden data)

As reported in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/issues/563

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Debian "Wheezy" with Evince 3.4.0 using poppler/cairo (0.18.4).

A PDF form created (LibreOffice  3.5.4.2). I can use Evince to enter data in fields, save the file, and then read the data using Evince. 
The file was sent to another person, who used Preview on a iMac to enter data and returned the file to me. It worked fine for him. When I open the file with Evince, the fields all appear blank (except for the checkbox he used). BUT if I select a field, the entered data appears and then disappears as I click somewhere else in the document.

Extra information about the returned form:
xpdf will not display the entered data. 
imagemagick shows all data in the form.
It is smaller than the original.
Running Evince from the command-line shows a series of:
   'Error: Unknown font in field's DA string'

I have tried setting the font in the fields to Times New Roman in case the iMac did not recognise Arial - no difference.

File as returned to me is attached.
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Comment 1 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2018-06-06 13:47:46 UTC 
The issue is reproducible with poppler-glib-demo 0.64. The fields forms are there, contain data, but they are rendered empty.
Comment 2 GitLab Migration User 2018-08-20 21:59:22 UTC 
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