I'd suggest allowing the user to have the annotations metadata saved in a file (perhaps a hidden one) that sits in the same dir the opened file is. It could even be the default behaviour. The motivation is PORTABILITY of that metadata (think of PDFs saved in Ubuntu One folders for example). Reproducible: Always
You know you can export as okular archive, a file that contains the original file and the annotaions?
Thanks Albert for your reply. I'm aware of that feature. I don't count it as portable in the sense of carrying your PDF's around with your notes (UbuntuONe, Box, OwnCloud, etc). You would need to create packages for all your files, and you won't be able to open them with other viewer than okular (which I of course love :-D) I'd like to have something like this: ~/Documents/MY_FILE.pdf ~/Documents/.MY_FILE.pdf.okular And perhaps fallback to having a copy of that notes in .kde/ If I have the time soon I'll try to bring a patch for that but I haven't coded C++ for a long time.
I understood your suggestion, i only highlighted the solution we have for the sharing problem.
(In reply to comment #3) > I understood your suggestion, i only highlighted the solution we have for > the sharing problem. What do u think of my proposal? Might be of interest for the rest of the users?
To be honest, i have no clue, what's why we have the "vote" feature on bugzilla :D
This feature would be great indeed. I'm adding my vote.
Alternatively, https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228114 or https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315552 would satisfy my use case (making and seeing annotations on the same document from multiple machines).
Bug 315552 and Bug 228114 are now fixed, the feature to save to PDF directly will be available in KDE Applications 17.12. If you still want to keep an unmodified version around, you'd have to use "Save As".