#777657 evince: hides dropdown menus in pdf forms until they are clicked on

Package:
evince
Source:
evince
Description:
Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
Submitter:
Joris Mooij
Date:
2015-02-11 07:06:07 UTC
Severity:
normal
#777657#5
Date:
2015-02-11 06:54:08 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

I was pleasantly surprised to see that evince can now edit and save pdf forms
(especially since Adobe apparently no longer provides a linux version of their
Acrobat Reader).

However, I encountered the following usability issue when editing a pdf form:
certain dropdown menus cannot be recognized (visually) as such until they are
clicked on.

I don't know if this is an evince bug or a poppler bug, nor whether it only
occurs with specific pdf forms.

I do know that Acrobat Reader on Windows and on Macs does not have this issue
with this particular pdf form: there, the dropdown menus are recognizable as
such by a little arrow / triangle on their right-hand side, already before the
user clicks on them.

I've attached a screen shot of the form which shows a series of dropdown menus;
I've only clicked on the first one (so that one has become visible), the others
are hardly recognizable as dropdown menus.

Best wishes,
Joris