Evnice is missing keyboard shortcuts to navigate between form fields

Bug #299340 reported by Taylor Braun-Jones
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This bug affects 10 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Evince
Fix Released
Medium
evince (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evince

There is no easy way to navigate between form fields in a PDF document. This can be particularly frustrating with forms that have a separate text entry for each individual character. I think [Tab] makes the most sense. The current behavior of [Tab] is not very useful at all.

If Evince could detect single character form fields and automatically advance to the next field (a-la Adobe Reader) that would be ideal.

Using Ubuntu 8.10, Evince 2.24.1

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evince
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: evince 2.24.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evince
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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Taylor Braun-Jones (nocnokneo) wrote :
Changed in evince:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

I don't know if that easy to implement, but that's something to send upstream to bugzilla.gnome.org, for forwarding instructions please have a look to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME ; thanks in advance.

Changed in evince:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Confirmed
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Linking this upstream

Changed in evince:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote :

thanks, setting this as triaged.

Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in evince:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
Changed in evince:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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Ethan Bissett (draimus-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

This is particularly frustrating when dealing with US Tax forms.

Changed in evince:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → nobody
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Mörgæs (moergaes)
Changed in evince (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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