Bug 404882

Summary: Feature request: highlighter remains selected
Product: [Applications] okular Reporter: Nicolas Vaughan <nivaca>
Component: PDF backendAssignee: Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: aacid
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 1.6.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nicolas Vaughan 2019-02-27 22:22:29 UTC 
SUMMARY

After using the highlighter tool (as well as the underline tool, etc.) once, it automatically unselects itself and selects the "text selection" tool. Thus, in order to highlight again, the user needs to select again the proper tool.


EXPECTED RESULT
It would be more efficient of the highlighter tool (as well as the underline tool, etc.) remain selected throughout, until the user wishes to use another tool. This is the default behavior in other PDF editors (e.g. PDF Studio, Adobe Acrobat, etc.).
Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2019-02-27 22:41:50 UTC 
Read the manual.

"If you e.g. want to highlight all important parts of a text, activate that tool permanently by double clicking on the tool button. "

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