Bug 428584

Summary:	Enable re-ordering, rotating, deleting or inserting of pages in PDF documents.
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Mark Szentes-Wanner <mark>
Component:	PDF backend	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Linux
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Description Mark Szentes-Wanner 2020-11-01 23:10:42 UTC

SUMMARY
Please enable editing of PDF documents. I would like to rotate, delete or insert pages in PDF documents or reorder them just like I can do with the Preview app on MacOS.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Open a PDF document in Okular
2. Click a thumbnail on the left sidebar and try to move it.
3. Right-click on a thumbnail on the left

OBSERVED RESULT
Instead of moving the thumbnail, the view gets scrolled.
No rotate page menu entry in the right-click menu. 
No delete page menu entry in the right-click menu. 

EXPECTED RESULT
moving thumbnails around should change the order of the pages. Moving thumbnails from a different PDF document should insert the corresponding page from the other PDF document into the current one. 

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: any up to today
(available in About System)
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Okular 4:17.12.2-2.2

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2020-11-02 21:48:08 UTC

No. 

Look at the other million times this was asked for the rationale.

Comment 2 Mark Szentes-Wanner 2020-11-03 21:54:52 UTC

The other million times this was asked for had a rationale. The million other users asked for these features not because they do not understand the KISS (keep it simple stupid) principle, but rather because this small enhancement actually improves the user experience. Whenever you view a PDF file and discover that some page is ill-oriented or in the wrong order, you do not want to fire up a different program just to do that. So please reconsider your standpoint. BTW, Okular can do annotations into the PDF file changing it so the argument that Okular is only a viewer does work here. Moreover, the requested features can be realised by just calling the QPDF functions. (see QPDF on Sourceforge).

Comment 3 Christoph Feck 2020-11-03 22:13:23 UTC

Rotation is possible using View menu. All other operations are editing operations, and Okular is not an editor, only a viewer. Once you start adding editing operations, users request more.