Testing the document linked in Comment #17 (fw4.pdf) works for me. I am able to change data, then save the form to the desktop. When I re-open the saved form, my data is there and I can continue working on it.
$ pdfinfo fw4.pdf Title: 2012 Form W-4 Subject: Employee's Withholding Allowance Certificate Keywords: Fillable Author: SE:W:CAR:MP Creator: Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 Producer: Adobe LiveCycle Designer ES 8.2 CreationDate: Wed Dec 2 13:53:19 2009 ModDate: Fri Dec 2 13:55:40 2011 Tagged: yes Pages: 2 Encrypted: no Page size: 611.976 x 791.968 pts (letter) File size: 109930 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.7 You will still receive an error message "The file could not be saved as "[..]". Document is ecrypted" with the document in comment #14 (IMM5406E.PDF). $ pdfinfo IMM5406E.PDF Title: IMM 5406E : Additional Family Information Author: Citizenship and Immigration Canada Creator: PScript5.dll Version 5.2 Producer: Acrobat Distiller 5.0.5 (Windows) CreationDate: Tue Jun 11 18:01:20 2002 ModDate: Thu Dec 31 11:39:14 2009 Tagged: no Pages: 1 Encrypted: yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no) Page size: 612 x 792 pts (letter) File size: 89569 bytes Optimized: no PDF version: 1.6 It appears that the ability to save form data in unsigned, unecrypted documents is working in Precise. It is still not possible to save signed documents with changed form data. - evince 3.4.0-0ubuntu1.4 - poppler 0.8.14 Adobe Acroread from the partner repo has no problems saving the files, signed or not. ii acroread 9.4.7-1oneiric1 Adobe Reader ii acroread-common 9.5.1-1precise1 Adobe Reader - Common Files Thanks, Eric -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/492959 Title: Evince cannot save filled PDF forms To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/492959/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs