Sometimes fails to save form data
Submitted by Andrew Moise
Link to original bug (#744810)
Description
I opened an editable form in evince, checked to make sure that I could save the filled-out form (using "Save a copy"), then entered some data, saving as I went. Unfortunately, the saving doesn't work 100% of the time. One time I tried to save a copy, evince made a 0-byte file, and when I noticed and attempted to save again, it made a corrupted file (not readable by evince or any other tool I tried). I had saved over my previous work, so I lost my data.
I've made a couple attempts to reproduce the problem without success. I still do have the corrupted file, which should be useful in tracking down the problem. The corrupted file is some personal finance information, though, so I won't post it publicly. I'm happy to share a sanitized copy with developers individually to help to track down the problem. From examining it, it looks like evince somehow saved the form data only, but not any of the other data that was in the PDF.
This is with evince 3.14.1-1 from Debian jessie.
Thanks!
Version: 3.14.x