Bug 396681

Summary:	Save annotations internally (docdata)
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé <devel>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	1.3.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé 2018-07-20 00:19:55 UTC

Hi,

I just updated to okular 1.3 and noticed that the feature to save annotations internally is no longer supported. Is there any chance to get it back in future versions or are there severe reasons against it? It totally breaks my workflow, since it is way too tedious for me to save the changes all the time, further more I do not want to change my PDFs since I often want to share them without any annotations and I also do not want to have a mess of okular document archives for all the djvu files. Since saving the existing annotations (without changes) is still supported (“OriginalAnnotationPageItems”) it should not be too difficult to add the option while maintaining the new default behaviour, right? Or is there anything new which relies on the new behaviour?

Best,

Jonathan

Comment 1 Christoph Feck 2018-07-20 18:42:32 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 394775 ***

Comment 2 Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé 2018-07-21 13:34:56 UTC

Thanks Christoph for refering to the duplicate, I had not found it, sorry. Would you mind telling me if there is any major problem with saving annotations internally impeding other features? Or is it just a general usability decision to replace it by another behaviour? (so I would be warned if I want to maintain a fork) Thank you very much!

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2018-07-21 14:41:03 UTC

It was a general usability decision. Saving annotations into the PDF itself was one of the most frequently requested features for Okular. We didn't want to maintain two user interfaces for the feature--one of which did what people expected and another that didn't do that and was full of bugs (for example, if you used Dolphin to change the name of a PDF with externally-saved annotations, the external annotations wouldn't be associated with the document anymore).

Comment 4 Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé 2018-07-21 19:18:20 UTC

Thank you very much, Nate!