[poppler] Spec question: Resetting form fields

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dilluns, 19 de març de 2012, a les 13:43:40, Leonard Rosenthol va escriure:
> I will double check this and get back to you...

Thanks :-)

Albert

> 
> On 3/19/12 5:18 AM, "Carlos Garcia Campos" <carlosgc at gnome.org> wrote:
> >Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of dom mar 18 23:52:14 +0100
> >
> >2012:
> >> I'm trying to get ready for 0.19.2 the patches to reset the form values
> >>
> >>and
> >>
> >> I've stumbled over something that feels like a mis-specification or
> >>
> >>maybe i am
> >>
> >> just reading the spec wrong.
> >> 
> >> The spec says
> >> 
> >> Upon invocation of a reset-form action, a conforming processor shall
> >>
> >>reset
> >>
> >> selected interactive form fields to their default values; that is, it
> >>
> >>shall
> >>
> >> set the value of the V entry in the field dictionary to that of the DV
> >>
> >>entry
> >>
> >> (see Table 220). If no default value is defined for a field, its V
> >>
> >>entry shall
> >>
> >> be removed.
> >> 
> >> So you go over the fields and if those fields have DV you set the V to
> >>
> >>that
> >>
> >> value and if not you remove the V value.
> >> 
> >> Seems simple enough.
> >> 
> >> But the V value is marked as inheritable this means that in this
> >>
> >>situation
> >>
> >> Form A
> >> V "Foo"
> >> DV None
> >> 
> >> Form B inherits Form A
> >> V "Bar"
> >> 
> >> When resetting Form "B" i'd remove the V value from it and it would
> >>
> >>show "Foo"
> >>
> >> since it will then be read from Form A.
> >> 
> >> That seems "wrong" in my mind. But obviously it's "wronger" going to
> >>
> >>Form A
> >>
> >> and removing the V there :D
> >> 
> >> So I'm quite stucked here. Any idea of what's the right thing to do?
> >
> >What does acroread do in such case?
> >
> >> Or maybe that is the right thing to do?
> 
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