See https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315 why this cannot work.
And QPDF won't be able to do anything about it, either...
There might even be PDF-capable printers on the market (i.e. where the
rasterization is not done by gs / poppler on the host), where the form content
will not be printed even without the fit-to-page option.
The PDF format generally does not allow arbitrary transformations (as used by
pdftopdf in certain cases) to be applied to the ("interactive") Form content -
which is stored separately from the Page content.
The usual solution for printing is that the viewer application (Evince, Google
Chrome, ...) converts (hard-codes) any Form content into regular Page content
before sending the data to the printing chain. Using lpr skips this
(non-trivial) step.
** Bug watch added: bugs.linuxfoundation.org/ #1315
https://bugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1315
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1564249
Title:
Cannot print a PDF with AcroForms using fit-to-page
Status in cups-filters package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Status in qpdf package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Using KUbuntu 14.04. I am trying to print the attached PDF with filled
forms (AcroForms) with the following command:
lpr -o fit-to-page PDFForm3.pdf
But my Samsung ML-1210 prints the document with empty forms. If I omit
-o fit-to-page then all the forms keep the filled data.
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# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
Release: 14.04
# apt-cache policy cups
cups:
Installed: 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7
Candidate: 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7
Version table:
*** 1.7.2-0ubuntu1.7 0
500 http://ftp.byfly.by/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
1.7.2-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://ftp.byfly.by/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
CUPS in Xenial (from here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-
live/current/xenial-desktop-i386.iso) has the same issue. Xenial:
# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Release: 16.04
# apt-cache policy cups
cups:
Installed: 2.1.3-3
Candidate: 2.1.3-4
Version table:
2.1.3-4 500
500 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages
*** 2.1.3-3 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
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