Bug 484330

Summary:	PDF editing tools unusable
Product:	[Applications] okular	Reporter:	dE <de.techno>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Okular developers <okular-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	felixernst
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	23.08.5
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description dE 2024-03-23 15:06:15 UTC

This is the 1st time I'm trying out the PDF editing tools and it does not seem to work in an expected way -- 
For e.g. use the 'insert text' annotation. Problem -- 
1) You can select the area to which you can insert text. The area selection box (usually a dashed rectangle) is transparent.
2) You cannot select existing insert text boxes. ctrl+click does not work. Since this feature does not work, you cannot edit, move or delete the text box that you inserted.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: 5.27.11
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.12

Comment 1 Felix Ernst 2024-05-23 09:47:21 UTC

(In reply to dE from comment #0)
> For e.g. use the 'insert text' annotation.

> 2) You cannot select existing insert text boxes. ctrl+click does not work.
> Since this feature does not work, you cannot edit, move or delete the text
> box that you inserted.

This is possible, however it only works while using the "Browse" tool i.e. when your mouse cursor is a grabby hand.

I agree that this is confusing.

I wonder if this should be marked as a duplicate of https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=443882 because the core issue that users are unable to edit annotations with the wrong tool are the same. Maybe no matter the tool, right-clicking an annotation should have an "Edit…" action that opens a popup with all the necessary fields to change the annotation in any way.

Comment 2 dE 2024-12-13 03:44:13 UTC

This has started to work fine since KDE 6