https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328026
--- Comment #8 from Chris George <technat...@gmail.com> --- It was the first thing I noticed about the application. The "normal" procedure in most textual applications, like web browsers, word-processors and text editors is to be able to highlight text with the selection tool and then use the standard Ctrl-C or r-click, copy. Normally when a user releases the mouse button or the shift key when using the keyboard to select text, the selected text just sits there waiting for the next step. It is totally a niche use case, only applicable to maybe a couple million students and researchers around the world, but being able to select text and have it immediately injected into an annotation would be very handy. Having the annotation easily accessible via the xml file, as it currently is, is brilliant for my application. I am trying to put together something that makes sense, the Docear path is too top heavy IMO. They have chosen to build their workflow around a mindmap and have yet to do much work on the authoring side of the equation, I am working with a programmer's outliner and authoring tool. But I am not a programmer. I am a student. I am working through a python course at the moment, but it will be a long time until I am competent enough to write my own pdf parsing utility. I was overjoyed to find okular and have been using it for a couple of years to highlight text, copy it, paste it into a note annotation (then reformatting it to all be on one line instead of several) and access it in the xml file via the outliner when I am writing the paper that I did the research for. I have been keeping my eyes open for opportunities to improve the situation and was looking ahead to when Docear completes their pdf parser. They are mainly there, but it has been a chore trying to find a reader that meets their needs and they have had to write a pretty hefty interface to their app. This will probably allow them to write a filter for okular to get the info out they want, I was looking for a backdoor. I use linux, cross platform is not my priority and I have no problem using the tools at hand to make this work. The outliner is cross platform and so is okular. I am polishing the workflow and trying to make it as smooth and seamless as possible. This is a minor niggle and it probably isn't worth your time. Someday I will find a way capture annotations, highlighted text and bookmarks right from the pdf. Until then I am just happy to have access to the xml file in the docdata directory in order to get the contents of the notes back out of the pdf. I pretty much don't use the highlighter, as the positional information in the xml file does me no good (but the text would) or the bookmarks, as I have no way of jumping to one on opening the pdf via command line. I'll just keep making do for now. Thanks for taking the time. Chris On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328026 > > --- Comment #7 from Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> --- > How is our method of copying text unusual? > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You reported the bug. > -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
