Bug 137322

Summary:	Green and pink "highlighters" cover text
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Gabriel Ambuehl 2006-11-14 09:48:53 UTC

Version:           0.5.81 (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
OS:                Linux

I'm using the Kubuntu binaries of okular. I'm very fond of of the highlighting features but unfortunately, the green and the pink highlighter are rather useless in their current state. Drawing over an area with content, they simply cover the view (like what would happen if you took a thick black felt pen and marked something in a book) to the content instead of highlighting it (as it happens with those bright text markers commonly used for the job).

The special yellow marker that follows text boxes works reasonably well, but sometimes gets confused when there is no text at all (like in schematic images and the like).

Comment 1 Gabriel Ambuehl 2006-11-19 12:03:19 UTC

Resolved:

 Commit by pino  ::  r606104 okular/trunk/playground/graphics/okular/ui/pagepainter.cpp: 
 make the agg drawing routine take into account the opacity value for both pena dn brush color, and paint the ink annotation using also the specified opacity level

Comment 2 Martin Fabian Hohenberg 2006-11-20 17:54:28 UTC

I know this is closed, but this might be a mere string problem:

The tooltip of the green and pink buttons talks about "highlighters", but the popup box calls them "ink", which is more what they do. The yellow highlighter is called highlighter both in the tooltip and in the popup box. "Straight yellow line" seems to do basically nothing. 

I'd really appreciate more optical diversification for the icons of highlighters and pens, and a method to have more than one color of highlighters (working with scientific texts, more than one highlighter comes in handy)...

Comment 3 Gabriel Ambuehl 2006-11-20 20:07:56 UTC

On Monday 20 November 2006 17:54, Martin Fabian Hohenberg wrote:
> The tooltip of the green and pink buttons talks about "highlighters", but
> the popup box calls them "ink", which is more what they do. The yellow
> highlighter is called highlighter both in the tooltip and in the popup box.
> "Straight yellow line" seems to do basically nothing.

Works for me... You need to click twice, at least to see something. 

> I'd really appreciate more optical diversification for the icons of
> highlighters and pens, and a method to have more than one color of
> highlighters (working with scientific texts, more than one highlighter
> comes in handy)...

Agreed. Customized icons with custom pre defined "pens" (thickness, color, 
opacity*) would be a very neat feature.

*Or maybe even compositing method. So that black text really remains black 
like it does with the follow text highlighter...