Bug 341915

Summary:	Persistent Highlighting/Annotation Tools
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Sudhir Khanger <sudhir>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version:	0.20.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Sudhir Khanger 2014-12-15 14:01:07 UTC

Currently I can only highlight once. I click review tools then highlight and then select the text. Cursor changes from highlight to browse. When I read large ebooks, I highlight every few minutes making me have to hit highlight button every time I want to use it. I use two-fingers gesture or mouse middle button to scroll across the pdf. It would be very helpful if highlight selection persist until canceled.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. highlight a text.
2. highlight cursor switched to browse
3.

Actual Results:  
after highlighting cursor switches to browse

Expected Results:  
highlight should stick to highlight until canceled and user be able to highlight multiple text in one go.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2014-12-15 14:02:53 UTC

Read the manual

Comment 2 Sudhir Khanger 2014-12-15 16:15:22 UTC

Thank you Albert.

What do you think about giving an option to make permanent-highlighting as the default behavior?

I spend a few hours everyday reading books in Okular. So it is important for me that most-used-things are set as default.

If in future Annotation Tools/Highlight can also be placed in toolbar it would make sense to have such an option.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-12-15 16:20:45 UTC

I think you can double click once at the beginning of your few hours of reading and it'll be like 0.00001% of your time. No need to clutter the interface for something 1 person needs.