Re: [Ilugc] Project idea/GSoC
On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Mohan Sundaram mohan@gmail.com wrote: Short answer: Okular cannot change the annotations in PDF documents. Yeah true! Just checked out by trying to Annotate in Okular and opening in Adobe Reader. Didnt work. But Annotating PDF in Xournal works (which I use most times if needed) Check that out. Regards, A ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Project idea/GSoC
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 4:34 AM, Mohan Sundaram mohan@gmail.com wrote: As far as I've read, Okular does not have these features. It, however, has the capability to read/render different formats. This makes it an interesting platform for review/ annotation across multiple formats. When you click Review , you *should* be able to annotate the PDF. No? May be I am missing something here. Regards, A ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Project idea/GSoC
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Aanjhan R aanj...@gmail.com wrote: When you click Review , you *should* be able to annotate the PDF. No? May be I am missing something here. Regards, A Seems so in one screenshot. Will check it out. However, when I went thro' the FAQs, I got these. Why the newly added annotations are not in my PDF document? Short answer: Okular cannot change the annotations in PDF documents. Longer answer: the library used for reading PDF documents (Poppler) does not allow changing the annotations inside a PDF document. Also, due to the fact that Okular allows you to annotate in any kind of document it supports (even if that format does not support annotations), Okular saves the annotations internally in the local data directory for each user. [Up to Questions] How can I annotate a document and send it to a friend/collegue/etc? Since KDE 4.2, Okular has the document archiving feature. This is an Okular-specific format for carrying the document plus various metadata related to it (currently only annotations). You can save a document archive from the open document by choosing File - Export As - Document Archive. To open an Okular document archive, just open it with Okular as it would be eg a PDF document. -- Mohan Sundaram ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
Re: [Ilugc] Project idea/GSoC
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape ka...@imsc.res.in wrote: Hello, On Sun, 04 Oct 2009, Mohan Sundaram wrote: The kind of annotations I'm talking of are typewriter inserts, rectangles, oval, circles, lines, arrows, comments, link boxes etc. I don't know about all these things so my suggestion may be a bit off. I _have_ done PDF markup in two ways: 1. Write text on top of the PDF file. One can do this with flpsed which is short for fltk PostScript Editor. 2. Fill up PDF forms by extracting the FDF data. One can do this with pdftk. In most of these s/w, PDF needs to be converted as PS/ background images and then edited. E.g GIMP brings them in as images. This is a big issue when we have multi-page documents. If these were annotation elements, then we can turn their visibility on and off, skip from one to another while reviewing feedback given as annotations etc. Filling up forms can be met by ftpsed or pdftk etc. as we do not need extensive annotation capability. Comments and notes are the one used most in reviewing. Arrows, box markers, highlights and link embedding are use less but are important nevertheless. As far as I've read, Okular does not have these features. It, however, has the capability to read/render different formats. This makes it an interesting platform for review/ annotation across multiple formats. I did not know of Xournal and it does seem to explicitly support PDF annotations. Need to check that out. I had not dwelled much on PDFEdit earlier as it was described as a library. Seeing it now, I see a GUI thingy. Need to explore this too. Given all this, I still think it is a worthwhile project for some one to take up on Okular. Mohan Sundaram ___ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with unsubscribe password address in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
