Bug 93071 - Some PDF forms son't seem to display properly with poppler. Black boxes take the place of fields, text can't be seen
Summary: Some PDF forms son't seem to display properly with poppler. Black boxes take ...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: poppler
Classification: Unclassified
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
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Assignee: poppler-bugs
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Reported: 2015-11-22 20:45 UTC by King Of Nerds
Modified: 2015-11-22 22:57 UTC (History)
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2015-11-22 20:45 UTC, King Of Nerds 		Details
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Description King Of Nerds 2015-11-22 20:45:16 UTC 
Created attachment 120037 [details]
document with the problem I am descibing

On some pdf forms don't work properly with poppler, I have looked everywhere, but have not been able to find this bug documented, so I am putting it here. Windows PDF viewers can fill the form just fine, but none of the linux viewers which use poppler can do it.

I am attaching an example PDF which has this problem. it came from this site: https://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/character_sheets

I am using Linux Mint 17.2 which is based off of Ubuntu Trusty, but I have friends with Ubuntu 15.10 which also have the same problem. I have not had the opportunity to test any newer versions of poppler, but being as I couldn't find any reference to this issue in the bug reports, I am assuming that it hasn't been fixed yet. 

If it is fixed, then please let me know which version of poppler it is working in and I will try to see what I need to do to get that version running in my distribution.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2015-11-22 22:54:36 UTC 
Works fine for me.

Okular 0.23.2
poppler 0.37.0
Comment 2 Albert Astals Cid 2015-11-22 22:57:49 UTC 
http://i.imgur.com/dSpa7Y6.png

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