Created attachment 131497 [details] Okular Editor Sidebare, with layout from GwenView I know that Okular is an viewer and it work pretty well. For linux there are a lot of good cli pdf editors out there, but no useful GUI. Attached an idea of an pdf editor sidebar tab (idea is from GwenView). The idea is to have an sidebar with the different commands + labels for editor functionality. The layout come from GwenView cause have only an icon is very difficult to understand but icon + label work very well in GwenView. I don't want that Okular should implement all that editor stuff by themselve. As I wrote there are good command line tools out there which has all that functionality so according to the KISS principles, why Okular can't use them. There is a really good extension for dolphin and pdf handling. https://store.kde.org/p/998465/
I already know the stock answer: "Okular is not an editor by the definition of what Okular wants to be." However I personally feel like it would be useful to expand the potential scope of the project to include basic editing. However I'm not the maintainer, it's just my opinion. :)
At least poppler (poppler-utils) the Okular pdf backend support "pdf editor" functionality like: - pdftotext - pdftohtml - pdfunite - pdfimages - pdftocairo - pdfunite
Could such file-type specific actions be added to a Purpose plugin?