В Срд, 17/09/2008 в 17:57 -0600, Mister Ribble пишет: > This is an idea that came up recently. Should the feature become > enormously popular, I want to give credit where it's due. The idea is > Marques Rasmussen's - at least, that's where I heard it from, and it > sounded like he thought of it himself. > > Anyways, the idea is this. Marq likes to download entire .pdfs of > textbooks to read on his tablet PC. Just like with a regular notebook, > he would like the ability to highlight, mark up, note, draw on, and > generally customize the view of his virtual textbook. Currently, I know > of no .pdf viewers/editors that have this very basic functionality > (though I'm far, far from an expert in these products). > > Thinking about it, I realized that implementation would be relatively > simple. All you have to do is allow the user to enter a mode in which > mouse clicks are converted into pixel graphics - just like a simple > Paint program - which draws to an overlay. The overlay should be > toggle-able. The overlay could (should?) be stored in a separate file > from the original pdf, but loaded when requested. Of course, you could > add the ability to specify stroke size, brush stroke shape, color, > opacity, etc. But, overall, the idea is to simply allow the user to > display an editable graphic (.png?) over the display of the document > with variable opacity. It could be a plugin, or something that is > disabled by default, whatever. But, it would be massively useful for > tablet users who like to read everything on their tablets. > > Please let me know if such a feature has been suggested before and where > I could find information about any conclusions. It seems like such a > change would be relatively easy to code for anyone with in-depth > knowledge of the api for how evince displays a document to the screen. I > would be willing to do it myself in a couple months. >
Hi Eli I with you could subscribe on this list. Really this is important feature we have not enough power to implement. Recently it was discussed in annotations thread: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2008-September/msg00007.html _______________________________________________ Evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
