On Friday, 16 January 2026 05:49:07 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote:
> gbranden pushed a commit to branch master
> in repository groff.
> 
> commit 9377ac54c5af5c5eb6f5a12dbcbcc101f6df4087
> Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
> AuthorDate: Thu Jan 15 20:05:50 2026 -0600
> 
>     gropdf(1): Document `pdfnote` macro.
> 
>     I had pretty bad luck with reader support for annotations.
> 
>     * okular(1) and xpdf(1) show the icon but hovering and clicking do
>       nothing.
>     * evince(1) shows the icon.  Clicking on it pops open a window showing
>       the title, but not the text (even though there's copious space for
>       it).
>     * Firefox's built-in PDF viewer seems to offer full support as described
> here.

These are my findings:-

Viewer       Version       Icon   Hover   Click   Dbl‐Click 
───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
okular     23.04.3           y     y[3]      n         y 
evince     44.2              y       y       y         ‐ 
xpdf       4.05              n       ‐       ‐         ‐ 
atril      1.26.1            y       y     y[4]        ‐ 
mupdf‐gl   1.11              y       n       n         ‐ 
qpdfview   0.50              y       y       y         ‐ 
zathura    0.5.5             y       n       n         ‐ 
acrobat    windows           y       y       y         ‐ 
firefox    140.6.0esr        y       y       y         ‐ 
chromium   136.0.7103.113    y       y       n         ‐ 

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 [1] Okular must not be in text selection mode. 
 [2] Right click, Annotation Properties

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