I read in the gnome 2.22 roadmap that evince should integrate the
annotations work from GSoc 2007. From the last time I tried trunk, this
feature does not yet seem to be available, so here are a couple
questions:
1- is this still planned and undergoing love?
2- will it allow the user to annotate ANY PDF file?*
3- is there a feature/bug report I can cling to, or a special branch
that I could help test? (disclaimer: I am running gnome 2.20)

*: I believe that it would make no sense respecting the annotations
permission (DRM) that is present in certain files, for three reasons:
1- First because it hides the nice evince feature
2- second because the user would go flip the gconf
key /apps/evince/override_restrictions anyway
3- and third because 99% of all PDF documents I have come across don't
have those "allow comments" rights in the first place -- not because the
author (ex: teachers) don't want the students to be able to add notes,
but because he is not able to actually enable them! Even I, using
OpenOffice, have never been able to create a PDF document that allows
comments.

Annotation is the killer feature that I (and other student friends) have
been waiting for, for a long time! Please keep up the awesome work, I am
certainly not alone to sorely need this!
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