[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 24812] New: complex (?) pdf forms not correctly rendered

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24812

           Summary: complex (?) pdf forms not correctly rendered
           Product: poppler
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux (All)
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocker
          Priority: medium
         Component: qt4 frontend
        AssignedTo: poppler-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: diego.ercolani at gmail.com


I don't have much experience with pdf forms but I found a kind of ducument
bakered by Acrobat that doesn't be rendered correctly in okular that uses
poppler as backend.
I opened a bug issue in bugs.kde.org
(https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=212394) but they told that this should be
a backend (poppler) problem as the same issue is in every opensource pdf
rendering engine that I tryied:
ghostscript
kpdf from kde3
xpdf
gimp


There are 2 problems:

-------------- 1st problem ---------------
ghostscript think that the font used by the document contains ArialMT:
gs -sDEVICE=x11 EstrattoConto_1256901690391.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 8.62 (2008-02-29)
Copyright (C) 2008 Artifex Software, Inc.  All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/8.62/Resource/Font/ArialMT.
Can't find (or can't open) font file ArialMT.
Can't find (or can't open) font file
/usr/share/ghostscript/8.62/Resource/Font/ArialMT.
Can't find (or can't open) font file ArialMT.
Scanning /usr/share/fonts/truetype for fonts... 482 files, 480 scanned, 471 new
fonts.
Loading ArialMT font from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/arial.ttf... 6354392
2943989 20226572 18829752 3 done.
>>showpage, press <return> to continue<<

while acrobat reader 8 properties says more characters but not ArialMT (I'll
include Acrobat properties screenshot) - immagine1.jpeg
The same for okular (see attached immagine2.jpeg)

--------------2nd problem (MORE IMPORTANT) ---------------------
The document contain a form that is compiled to create the pdf from java Adobe
LiveCycle Designer 8.
Okular shows that there are forms but doesn't show anithing but the page
template.... (see immagine3.jpeg)
while acrobat shows correctly the form with prefilled fields.

The document is a "statement of account" for credit cards so it's a kind of
document that is important to be readable....


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