Bug 401569

Summary: Text box annotations
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: el <elattash1>
Component: printingAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: elattash1, haxtibal, luigi.toscano, yurchor
Priority: NOR    
Version: 1.3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description el 2018-11-30 12:43:47 UTC 
SUMMARY
Add ability to create *text box* annotations. For example, this can be used to fill out a pdf document. At the moment the best okular can do is to add a yellow note box.

Preview on macos can do it. Libreoffice Draw as well.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
ubuntu 18.04; okular version 1.3.3
Comment 1 Yuri Chornoivan 2018-11-30 12:51:32 UTC 
Hi!

Can it be that the new (Okular from Applications 18.12) typewriter annotation tool is what you want?

https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kdegraphics/okular/annotations.html

https://phabricator.kde.org/D15204

"Typewriter features opaque letters on a transparent background, so that it is useful to fill noninteractive forms."

Thanks in advance for your answer.
Comment 2 el 2018-11-30 12:55:36 UTC 
Viva Okular!

Thank you so much I just noticed this:

It looks like this is a duplicate of:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397991

According to the comment by Tobias, the link mentioned ( https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2018/StatusReports/DileepSankhla ) is exactly what I mean.

This is the same one you kindly referenced Yuri.

So why not make it upstream?
Comment 3 el 2018-11-30 13:00:37 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 397991 ***
Comment 4 Tobias Deiminger 2018-11-30 17:16:27 UTC 
(In reply to el from comment #2)
> So why not make it upstream?

It is already, and will be released with KDE Applications 18.12. If you want to try earlier you can build Okular master.