1815196 - Hidden (Exclude from Layout) PDF button should not be visible in the printed form.

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect, P1)

Description

[pyrex1977]

Attachment: hidden_field_is printed.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/104.0.5112.102 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I opened a PDF file in a firefox tab. This PDF contains a form with hidden buttons (option Hidden (Exclude from Layout)).

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/109.0
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Actual results:

These hidden button are printed as grey boxes.

Expected results:

These hidden button should not be printed.

Extract from https://help.adobe.com/en_US/livecycle/11.0/DesignerHelp/WS107c29ade9134a2c583558f12a7dc955d9-8000.2.html:
Hidden (Exclude from Layout) The object is not visible on-screen, not visible in the printed form, and does not occupy any space in the form layout.

Chrome does not print theses hidden fields.

Comment 1

[pyrex1977]

Attachment: Bildschirmfoto 2023-02-06 um 12.21.51.png

Screenshot of the PDF file before being printed.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::PDF Viewer' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Attachment: [mozilla/pdf.js] [Annotation] Avoid to print a hidden annotation (bug 1815196) (#16029)