SUMMARY It seems that there is currently no way to share annotations to pdf-files made in okular with users on other devices. All options remove / destroy them. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. open a pdf-document and add annotations like text and highlighter / open .okular-file with such annotations 2. try to save it in a way, that others can open it and see the annotations OBSERVED RESULT saving as .pdf seems to not be possible / supported saving as .okular results in the annotations moving to places they don't belong (probably a version-issue between manjaro-repos and neon-repos (just my guess)) and probably cannot be opened by other pdf-readers exporting as pdf removes annotations printing removes annotations EXPECTED RESULT having the option to save the annotations as part of the pdf-file SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: - macOS: - Linux/KDE Plasma: kde-neon 5.18 user edition / manjaro-kde user edition (both up to date) KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.69.0 Qt Version: 5.14.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION the annotations aren't there in html and Open-Document exports as well.
My bad, I forgot to mention: It's version 1.10.0 of okular. I didn't specify it at the top, because the drop down menu stops with the 1.* at 1.9.80 and continues with 20.04.0, which I am not sure if it's the same as 1.10.0.
I cannot reproduce this behavior locally. Okular annotations (1.10, poppler 0.87) can be saved in PDF and read in Foxit Reader and Google Chromium. Does it happen for every file or just some files (if so can you attach one of those files to this bug report?)? Thanks in advance for your answer.
Created attachment 128305 [details] okular-file that cannot be saved as pdf with annotations
As I am not the one who created this file, but received a from a friend seeking help, I don't know exactly, what happened to it. With other files I can save the annotations. I'm sorry for not testing enough on that part in the beginning.
(In reply to Andreas Hurka from comment #4) > As I am not the one who created this file, but received a from a friend > seeking help, I don't know exactly, what happened to it. With other files I > can save the annotations. I'm sorry for not testing enough on that part in > the beginning. Yes, it seems that there is no way to save annotations from .okular file to .pdf now, but the file and annotations are readable in Okular. The original file can be easily exported from the archive (File -> Export as -> PDF). The only thing I can recommend is that if you want to share PDF you should save in PDF (annotations can be removed or edited later without data loss).