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[Catalin Patulea <cat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was running into this same bug with "GNOME Document Viewer 2.30.3".
The pdfopt workaround worked for me.

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Title:
  Some PDF forms don't save entered information

Status in Evince document viewer:
  New
Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “evince” package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: evince

  When trying to fill out certain PDF forms, such as the PDF tax forms
  available form irs.gov, with evince, I noticed a problem. Some forms
  could be filled out and saved just fine, and when those forms were
  reloaded the entered form data was still there. But other forms didn't
  work properly: filling in the form and saving it appeared to work, but
  when I loaded the form again the entered data was blank.

  One form that worked properly was the 1040 form, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf
  One form that failed to work was the 1040 Schedule SE form, http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040sse.pdf

  Also, when clicking on the rows of the SE that I had previously
  entered data into (and that now appeared blank), I noticed that evince
  no longer gave me an editing cursor for those rows. It was as if the
  form's text-entry box for those rows (and ONLY those rows) had been
  replaced by a blank, white, non-interactive rectangle. All other rows
  on the form (that I had not previously entered data into) were still
  interactive, but the rows that *should* have contained data were blank
  and unresponsive.

  To reproduce the problem:

  1) Download the 1040 and 1040 SE forms from the above links.
  2) Open the 1040 in evince. Enter some data. Save the form. Close evince.
  3) Re-open the 1040. Verify that the data entered previously is still there, and can be edited.
  4) Open the 1040 SE in evince. Enter some data on rows 1a and 2 of the form, leaving row 1b blank. Save the form. Close evince.
  5) Re-open the 1040 SE. Notice that rows 1a and 2 are blank and no longer respond to mouse clicks or keypresses, but row 1b (and other rows) can still be used.

  This happens on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10), using version 2.28.1-0ubuntu1.2
  of the evince package (from karmic-updates).

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