Bug 332117 - Feature request: more flexibility in inline notes
Summary: Feature request: more flexibility in inline notes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2014-03-14 03:29 UTC by avlas
Modified: 2019-05-30 18:47 UTC (History)
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Description avlas 2014-03-14 03:29:53 UTC
Inline notes are powerful, but they could be even more so if they would allow:

- transparent background (but not necessarily text as well, as opacity does)
- make transparent boundaries

In particular that would be useful to fill pdfs that are not fillable forms.

Currently I have to use Xournal for that, but I would prefer Okular much better.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Yuri Chornoivan 2014-03-15 08:12:37 UTC
Transparency is forbidden for PDF/A-1 by the standard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A ) so it is usable for PDF/A-2+ documents only if not converting pages into images.
Comment 2 avlas 2014-03-15 12:11:16 UTC
Well, I was asking for the same exisiting opacity to differently apply to background color and text color, and introduce it for the line color.

If not possible, just giving the option of no color for line and background would do it for me.
Comment 3 Albert Astals Cid 2014-03-15 15:20:56 UTC
I don't think opacity for anything than the whole thing makes sense, but width for the line is something that is already implemented in poppler and probably having a transparent background wouldn't be that hard. 

Needs someone to code it
Comment 4 avlas 2014-03-15 15:33:57 UTC
You mean width for line equal to 0 would be like no line at all?
Comment 5 Albert Astals Cid 2014-03-15 15:44:14 UTC
Yes
Comment 6 kodanda 2014-09-24 10:20:13 UTC
(In reply to avlas from comment #4)
> You mean width for line equal to 0 would be like no line at all?

I am also voting for option to remove the border. On documents with closely spaced line (such as scientific journal papers), the current border obscures a lot of important text.

Opaque text on transparent background, combined with the ability to "turn-off" the border appears to be an extremely useful feature.
Comment 7 kodanda 2014-09-24 10:21:50 UTC
(In reply to kodanda from comment #6)
> (In reply to avlas from comment #4)
> > You mean width for line equal to 0 would be like no line at all?
> 
> I am also voting for option to remove the border. On documents with closely
> spaced line (such as scientific journal papers), the current border obscures
> a lot of important text.
> 
> Opaque text on transparent background, combined with the ability to
> "turn-off" the border appears to be an extremely useful feature.

And of course, the capability of re-sizing the in-line text box later to the needs would make it a powerful review tool.
Comment 8 Laura David Hurka 2019-05-30 12:18:58 UTC
Is this fixed with the new “Typewriter” annotation tool now?

These are Typewriter annotations:
(In reply to avlas from comment #0)
> - transparent background (but not necessarily text as well, as opacity does)
> - make transparent boundaries
> 
> In particular that would be useful to fill pdfs that are not fillable forms.
Comment 9 Albert Astals Cid 2019-05-30 17:48:25 UTC
Reporter[s] could you try the new version with typewriter on it and say if it is what you expected?
Comment 10 avlas 2019-05-30 18:47:03 UTC
I think so