Re: [evince] what missing functionality is this document using?

["Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc avtechpulse com>]

> For the record, I'll document some problems I had trying to fill out
> this government form.  (I mention "government" because I don't like
> proprietary programs being forced on me by my government.)

The Govt of Canada is generally pretty clueless about linux support. 
However, if you submit questions to your MP about online govt tools that 
don't work with linux, the heat does get put on the bureaucrats 
(speaking from experience).

However, in this case, the passport office is being perfectly reasonable 
in using a standard, documented feature of PDF (javascript), so it is 
best to help get evince improved.


> The fonts in my Linux system must be a little different from those
> that the pdf creator used: text didn't properly fit in boxes.  But
> it was "close enough for government work" as they say.

File a bug upstream, with screenshots of the problem:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=evince


> When I went to save the filled in form, I got a warning that the
> form was encrypted and Evince refused to save it.  I sure would have
> liked to know BEFORE I went to the work of filling it in.
...
> I googled and found that this was a known limitation.
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evince/+bug/492959>
> So I unencrypted the document:
> 	qpdf --decrypt original.pdf unencrypted.pdf

Again, best to file a bug upstream, linking to the launchpad bug.


- Mike