Bug 338747

Summary: Allow toggling of annotation icons in PDF documents
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Tristan Miller <psychonaut>
Component: generalAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 0.19.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Attachments: A PDF annotated with pop-up notes

Description Tristan Miller 2014-09-02 08:53:08 UTC 
Okular is great for viewing PDF documents containing annotations, such as pop-up notes, but there is no obvious way of viewing the document *without* the annotation icons.

In a heavily annotated document, little yellow balloon icons clutter the page, obscuring text I want to read.  Nothing in the pull-down or context menus seems to allow me to suppress the display of these icons.

I can work around the problem by deleting the annotations one at a time, but that's rather cumbersome, particularly if there are dozens or hundreds of annotations.  (Usually I don't even want to delete an annotation; I just want to read what's underneath the balloon icon before opening it.)  Similarly, I could print a new PDF by going to File->Print and deselecting "Print annotations" from the "PDF Options" tab, but that's also rather awkward.

If there does exist some command for suppressing the annotation icons, then please make it easier to find.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a PDF document with annotations


Actual Results:  
2. As expected, little yellow balloon icons appear wherever there is an annotation.  However, there is no obvious way to temporarily turn them off so that the underlying text can be read.

Expected Results:  
2. There should be a menu option to toggle display of the annotation icons.
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-09-02 17:18:42 UTC 
For completion, can you attach such a document?
Comment 2 Tristan Miller 2014-09-03 10:24:48 UTC 
Created attachment 88543 [details]
A PDF annotated with pop-up notes

The annotated PDFs people send me are confidential, and I don't know what they're produced with (Acrobat Pro, probably).  But it seems like annotations produced by Okular itself exhibit the same problem; I'm attaching a PDF of dummy text which I've annotated with pop-up notes using Okular.  The annotation icons look a bit different but seem to behave identically.
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-09-03 17:22:34 UTC 
Makes sense.