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------- Additional Comments From will.jordan gmail com 2008-07-13 13:16 -------
I'm wondering if there has been any activity on solving this bug in the past
few months, or are things at a standstill regarding the annotations feature? As
a PhD student this bug is the most anticipated feature in all of KDE4 for me,
and has been ever since I heard the first early reports on Okular's development.
Two main suggestions have been provided so far:
1. Recent LibPoppler patches allow saving back to PDF files. Okular would have
to update its framework to allow saving to files in general, and saving
annotations to PDF files in particular.
2. Bundle the annotations XML with the document into a new bundle format
(.okular), which would work with any document type but would be a solution
specific to Okular and other programs that add specific compatibility for this
format.
I have a couple more suggestions:
3. Rather than save the annotations XML into an internal directory, attempt to
save it in the same directory as the opened document matching the filename (ex.
for document.pdf create a file document.pdf.okular in the same directory). This
will make the annotation file more accessible to the end user and would simply
solve many of the usability issues with the current system.
4. Okular needs to add the ability to extract annotations that are 'baked-in'
to the PDF file into its own XML format, so that the user isn't left with the
situation where half of his annotations are in one place/format and half are
somewhere else for the same document.
5. If no other work is being done on an annotations solution, I would love to
see Jonathan's packages added into the main distribution. Even if it is an
incomplete, hackish, temporary PDF-only solution, it is MUCH better than not
having anything until a fully robust, document-universal solution is finally
ready many more months/years down the line.
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