Bug 426318

Summary:	Okular pdf editor sidebar
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	andreas <kainz.a>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Attachments:	Okular Editor Sidebare, with layout from GwenView

Description andreas 2020-09-08 21:55:21 UTC

Created attachment 131497 [details]
Okular Editor Sidebare, with layout from GwenView

I know that Okular is an viewer and it work pretty well.

For linux there are a lot of good cli pdf editors out there, but no useful GUI.

Attached an idea of an pdf editor sidebar tab (idea is from GwenView). The idea is to have an sidebar with the different commands + labels for editor functionality. The layout come from GwenView cause have only an icon is very difficult to understand but icon + label work very well in GwenView.

I don't want that Okular should implement all that editor stuff by themselve. As I wrote there are good command line tools out there which has all that functionality so according to the KISS principles, why Okular can't use them.

There is a really good extension for dolphin and pdf handling.
https://store.kde.org/p/998465/

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2020-09-09 03:57:34 UTC

I already know the stock answer: "Okular is not an editor by the definition of what Okular wants to be."

However I personally feel like it would be useful to expand the potential scope of the project to include basic editing. However I'm not the maintainer, it's just my opinion. :)

Comment 2 andreas 2020-09-09 11:44:11 UTC

At least poppler (poppler-utils) the Okular pdf backend support "pdf editor" functionality like:
- pdftotext
- pdftohtml
- pdfunite 
- pdfimages 
- pdftocairo 
- pdfunite

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2020-09-28 10:24:13 UTC

Could such file-type specific actions be added to a Purpose plugin?