On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 10:07 +1100, Dave Davey wrote: > I am an editor for a scientific organisation. When I receive corrections > to proofs of papers, these are often in the form of PDFs with "notes" inserted > by Acrobat. > > Acroread displays these well. The positions in a file are clearly marked > and the content, which can be verbose, appears in a popup, from which > text can be grabbed. > > Now that Acroread for Linux is no longer supported by Adobe it would be > good if evince could consistently display such PDFs and make available > the notes in a useful manner. Unfortunately the notes inserted by > some versions of Acrobat are all but invisible using evince, i.e. the > position is indicated only by a small insert mark, and no popup is > available. > > My first question is: Is this a problem in the evince code, or it it > entirely in libpoppler? Can I usefully send an example PDF to someone?
Hi Dave, It also could be a combination of both, too. In PDF lingo, what you are referring to as notes (or sticky notes) are a certain type of annotations (text annotations). Those are supported in Evince (there are some glitches, but the bulk is there). The ones that don't show up, there might be pop-up annotations (they seem similar to text annotation but are not quite the same). Those are not implemented yet in poppler-glib nor evince, see [1]. However, I am just guessing. Better would be to take a look at the document. If it is not too big, you could send a sample document to me or a link where to grab it from. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711738 -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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