1655582 - (pdf-form-fill) [meta] AcroForm support

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, enhancement)

Description

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

Enable the filling, saving, and printing of AcroForm forms in PDF documents

Tracking work via deps of this bug as well as the following github project: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/projects/7

Comment 1

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

Original GH issue tracking requirements: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/7613

Original proposal also describing spec: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lKa9aMEJ5Nbg9jn-KN6c1FrY4iDIaxHOLNPwk0mFqtw/edit#

Note, both of these are out of date with regards to current status. Should we close or update them?

For live status, see dep bugs and https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/projects/7

Comment 2

[Jordan Lund (:jlund)]

Attachment: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/projects/7

Comment 3

[Fred Goldstein]

Form saving is still buggy. This form is used by our local court system for billing:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/guardian-ad-litems-certificate-of-servicesitemization-of-services-jv-068/download
If you fill it out in Firefox and save, the resulting PDF is scrambled. The data entered into the fields goes into the wrong place. A name field on page 2 gets saved on top of a different one (the first one), which is lost. When page 3 is filled out, it is overlaid on top of page 2, though if page 3 is not full, the bottom of page 2 is still unchanged, but page 3 is blank. It's just a terrible mess.

Comment 4

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

(In reply to Fred Goldstein from comment #3)

Form saving is still buggy. This form is used by our local court system for billing:
https://www.mass.gov/doc/guardian-ad-litems-certificate-of-servicesitemization-of-services-jv-068/download
If you fill it out in Firefox and save, the resulting PDF is scrambled. The data entered into the fields goes into the wrong place. A name field on page 2 gets saved on top of a different one (the first one), which is lost. When page 3 is filled out, it is overlaid on top of page 2, though if page 3 is not full, the bottom of page 2 is still unchanged, but page 3 is blank. It's just a terrible mess.

Thanks Fred for reporting this issue. Could you open a bug for it?

Comment 5

[Marco Castelluccio [:marco]]

We shipped AcroForm so this meta bug has served its purpose. We are using a whiteboard tag to mark AcroForm bugs.