Bug 191462 – evince 2.19.92/poppler 0.6.0 forms

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Colin Macdonald 2007-09-06 04:22:13 UTC]

This should probably be assigned to [e-mail] but bugzilla won't seem to let me do that.

I'm trying to test the new evince 2.19.92 which from all accounts should have forms support.  I've unmasked the new poppler 0.6.0 and evince 2.19.92 but I cannot type/click/etc on any of the form elements in any pdf files with forms (e.g., the ones at http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Forms).

When I mouse over a form entry field, no visual indication happens.  If I click and type nothing happens either.

I looked at the configure script and there doesn't seem to be an "enable-forms" or something like that.  I did find a 

#ifdef HAVE_FORMS
...
#else

#endif

in ev-poppler.cc in the evince but I haven't tried defining that somewhere and recompiling (may try that next).

Sorry to post a bug on package masked software without a fix attached but I'm just *so* curious to try pdf with forms support ;-)

emerge --info
Portage 2.1.3.7 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.20.7 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.20.7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:30:01 +0000
distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled]
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p17-r1
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r6
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.10-r4
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r1
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.24
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.22-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c"
CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="collision-protection distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://194.117.143.69 http://85.25.128.62"
MAKEOPTS="-j1"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage /usr/local/ag-portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acpi alsa apache2 arts audiofile avahi berkdb bitmap-fonts blas bzip2 cairo cdr cjk cli cracklib crypt cups curl dbus dga dri dts dv dvb dvd dvdr eds emacs emboss encode esd exif expat f77 faad fam fbcon ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fortran gcj gd gdbm gif ginac glut gmp gnome gnustep gnutls gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal iconv idn imagemagick imlib isdnlog jack java jpeg lapack lcms leim libcaca libnotify libsamplerate lirc live mad matroska midi mikmod mmap mmx mng mono mozilla mp3 mpeg mudflap mysql nas ncurses nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openal opengl openmp oss pam pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd pulseaudio python qhull qt3 quicktime radeon readline reflection rtc samba scanner sdk sdl session slang sndfile speex spell spl sqlite sse ssl startup-notification svg tcl tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff tk truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb v4l v4l2 vcd vorbis win32codecs wmf wxwindows x264 x86 xinerama xml xorg xosd xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIRC_DEVICES="realmagic" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 radeon mach64 vesa vga fbdev v4l"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Colin Macdonald 2007-09-06 04:56:18 UTC]

Created attachment 130136 [details, diff]
2.19.92_have_forms.patch

Ok, I wrote this patch and now it works!  Not sure if that is a reasonable thing to do or perhaps upstream intends to add a --enable-forms to the configure script to define HAVE_FORMS.  Anyway, works for me!

[Comment 2 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-09-13 01:49:16 UTC]

There's an upstream bug for this; they have a fix, and have asked for a break in the code freeze to release it.  If the break is not granted, I'll apply the fix to our package before releasing 2.20.0.  Thanks for the bug, I'll leave it open so I can track it.

[Comment 3 Colin Macdonald 2007-09-13 03:10:58 UTC]

Sorry but what's the upstream bug #?

[Comment 4 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-09-13 15:47:38 UTC]

There doesn't appear to be a bug open about it; it came across the mailing list.  Here's the request for freeze break (which has been granted):

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2007-September/msg00093.html

It also references the diff.

[Comment 5 Daniel Gryniewicz (RETIRED) 2007-10-02 14:16:16 UTC]

This is supposedly fixed in evince 2.20 in portage.

[Comment 6 Colin Macdonald 2007-10-02 16:36:10 UTC]

confirmed fixed in 2.20.  Sorry, I forgot to come back and close the bug!