Bug 321350

Summary:	Selection tool: copy/extract as vector graphic
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Thomas Fischer <fischer>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.16.4
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
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Description Thomas Fischer 2013-06-19 08:03:47 UTC

Currently, the selection tool of Okular allows to extract a region of a document as text or as a pixmap (same resolution as shown on screen). This solution is not satisfactory if a vector image like a diagram or a plot has to be extracted.

There exists a command line tool called "pdftocairo" which allows to specify a region of a PDF document and to render this region as PS, EPS, PDF, or SVG. However, figuring out the crop parameters requires trial and error. Thus, it would be a huge benefit if Okular could make use of the cropping and rendering of pdftocairo through its already existing selection feature.

Reproducible: Always