Bug 334185

Summary:	Auto alignment feature for notes
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	krichter
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	0.19.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description krichter 2014-05-01 15:19:43 UTC

Clicking on a note opens its text field which is the only possibility to display the content. Printing the notes is very annoying as the layout has to be done manually and looks unprofessional (as long as you don't invest the time to align the notes at +/-1 pixel in a line). In order to show notes to others, there's need for displaying, adjusting (in width) and aligning them automatically to be printed on a separate page or next to the zoomed out document

As long as there's no (portable - as in portable document format) possiblity to show the text content of notes to anybody else than people you convinced to install okular on their system and explained how to open the .okular archive, I'd like to stress the high priority for those using okular for its annotation feature.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-01 22:02:17 UTC

What are you talking about? You can totally save the annotations back to a pdf file and share them to other readers.

Comment 2 krichter 2014-05-02 05:39:39 UTC

I can:
1.) Export the notes (!= sticky notes) in a document archive which is not portable
2.) save them to a pdf (will only display an icon for the fact that there is a note, but not which content it has) (making them visible is part of my request)
3.) Recreate all notes as sticky notes (beside inacceptable time consumation depends on bug ?? (I cannot find the id until https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334202 is fixed) which should fix arbitrary width hiding text)

Can you give an example how to share the text content of a note with an - let's say - evince user.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-05-02 10:50:20 UTC

Do 2) and tell your friend to use a pdf viewer with proper support for annotations, he can either install Okular or Adobe Reader.

It's not our fault evince doesn't support pdf annotations properly, no?

Comment 4 Christoph Feck 2014-06-02 20:54:12 UTC

What is the status of this bug? From reading the comments, it looks invalid.

Comment 5 krichter 2014-06-03 00:42:40 UTC

Okular still doesn't satisfy the usecase "Print notes" in an accurate way (should profit from proposed autoalignment function)

Comment 6 Albert Astals Cid 2014-06-17 21:30:59 UTC

I agree with Chrtistoph