Hello, First obviously I thank you sincerely for the work you are putting into the development of evince.
Second, as a scientist I get through a lot of pdfs so every now and again I check on the progress of annotations in evince. One point that only came to my attention now, is whether to save the annotation with the pdf, or in a separate file. I would be a very very strong advocate of offering at least the option of keeping the annotation separate from the file. I have absolutely no idea how I came to this understanding, but it seemed (to me) that there were discussions to embed the annotation with the pdf, and that this would be more difficult than keeping them in a separate file. Of course the main point here is whether it would be easier (in which case yeahhh) or more difficult (in which case you may just skip the end of this email) to implement separate annotation and pdf files, but I can think of many further reasons for the separation of pdf and annotations, some of which are: For most internal reports, I am not the only person reading those pdfs, and sometimes I very much want my comments to remain private. The same goes when reading a paper from our pdf database, I must either keep local copies of all papers I have read (with the increased complication that I work on a number of different pcs), or have the annotations saved separately (on the pdf server). Upon opening the pdf using evince, the reader could be offered to overlay the annotation (from one or more files) or start with a "clean" paper. Multiple annotation files would also make collaboration easier. This is probably only relevant for people like me who do not use word but latex to produce documents. Ho, and I also think that my teaching would benefit from distinct annotations files. Sure enough keeping separate files will increase the complexity in some ways (eg what happens when one file is moved), but the more I think about it the more reasons I find in favour of separate files. And as long as evince is somehow "aware" of the existence of those annotation files, it would be nearly seamless for the users. Of course, it's always easy to ask and again I already thank you for the development evince. Many thanks And if you enjoy this time of the year, have a happy Xmas. anne ########################################### anne Vanhoest Implanted Devices Group Medical Physics and Bioengineering Department Malet Place Engineering Building UCL Gower Street WC1E 6BT London phone: 020 7679 0296 (internal: 30296) fax: 020 7679 0255 _______________________________________________ evince-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list
