Bug 463226

Summary:	popup annotations remain visible when you change page
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	Guido <guido.iodice>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	aacid, guido.iodice
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Guido 2022-12-19 08:31:03 UTC

SUMMARY
In Okular popup annotations remain visible also when you scroll to other pages, creating confusion

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Open a multipage PDF 
2.  Highlight a word then click on it and write a popup annotation
3. scroll to the next page

OBSERVED RESULT
The popup is still there

EXPECTED RESULT
Popup should disappear and reappear only when you come back to the original page

Also, would be useful to have a visual link between the annotation popup and the highlighted word.

Comment 1 Albert Astals Cid 2022-12-22 21:46:30 UTC

> Popup should disappear and reappear only when you come back to the original page

That's your opinion, i disagree.

Comment 2 Guido 2022-12-22 21:51:05 UTC

(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1)
> > Popup should disappear and reappear only when you come back to the original page
> 
> That's your opinion, i disagree.

that makes hard to work on multi-page documents. If the user has 5 popup per page on a 5-pages document, the total is 25 popups that fill the space and the user cant understand which are relevant for the page on which he is working.

Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2022-12-22 21:56:13 UTC

The user can close the popups they are not interested in viewing, no one forces them to have 25 popups open at the same time.

Comment 4 Guido 2022-12-23 10:00:58 UTC

(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #3)
> The user can close the popups they are not interested in viewing, no one
> forces them to have 25 popups open at the same time.

The user has no indication to which page the annotation refers. It is simply a big mess that makes this functionality unusable. No pdf software behaves this way, there must be a reason, don't you think?

Comment 5 Guido 2024-12-02 10:09:48 UTC

I am forced to use other apps to work on PDFs because this bug makes Okular practically unusable for reviewing PDFs. In addition to this bug, when you open the notes of a collent they overlap each other and you are forced to move them manually, furthermore there is no indication of the insertion point, so after a while the screen is full of notes and it is impossible to tell which part of the text they refer to.

Just take the most widely used apps as an example: Adobe Reader, MasterPDF editor, Pdf-X all work in the same way and do not have these problems.

Comment 6 Guido 2025-07-10 17:54:58 UTC

Can something be done about this? I have to keep wine installed to use a PDF editor for Windows, it seems absurd to me.