Bug 398217

Summary:	Permanent Highlighter stops working when switching from Okular to other apps and back
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Thomas Bingel <bingelt>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	minor	CC:	aacid, nate
Priority:	NOR	Flags:	bingelt: Usability-
Version First Reported In:	1.4.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Thomas Bingel 2018-09-03 23:10:35 UTC

I noticed this issue now at least twice on different days.

It happens when I have the highlighter on the Review bar double clicked, then start working on the opened PDF file and later change from Okular to let's they the Chrome browser to do some other stuff. When I then return to the opened PDF file to continue reading and highlighting, the highlighter icon on the Review bar is still enabled but you cannot select any text anymore to apply the highlighter.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2018-11-21 22:31:07 UTC

Is this only with Chrome or happens if you switch to some other app?

Can you reproduce it all the time and will all pdf files?

Comment 2 Thomas Bingel 2018-11-23 23:51:44 UTC

(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1)
> Is this only with Chrome or happens if you switch to some other app?
> 
> Can you reproduce it all the time and will all pdf files?

Thanks Albert for following up!
Since I have reported this particular issue in September it seems to have disappeared. Despite my very still very intensive use of Okular to annotate PDF files, this issue is not bothering me anymore.