SUMMARY There is currently no way to highlight across pages. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Try to highlight a paragraph that is located at the end of one page and continues into the beginning of the next page OBSERVED RESULT The highlight will not move on to the next page EXPECTED RESULT The highlight should be able to move on to the next page SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon 5.23 KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.88.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Graphics Platform: X11 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION none
Yes, you can. https://i.imgur.com/fZi30gc.png Unless you mean doing an annotation highlight and not text selection highlighting?
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #1) > Yes, you can. > > https://i.imgur.com/fZi30gc.png > > Unless you mean doing an annotation highlight and not text selection > highlighting? Sorry, yes, I meant the highlighter annotation tool.
That's a requirement of the PDF specification, Annotations are attached to a page, so you can't create multipage annotations.
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #3) > That's a requirement of the PDF specification, Annotations are attached to a > page, so you can't create multipage annotations. Perhaps the user-facing thing could create different annotations for different pages, so that it looks like it did go across pages?
> Perhaps the user-facing thing could create different annotations for different pages, so that it looks like it did go across pages? That's just asking for trouble. Imagine we do that, then you add a comment in that fake multipage annotation (the thing that opens when you double click). We could force the same comment to both of the annotations, but then you send that file to someone else, they open it in Adobe Reader, they edit the comment of one of the annotations, send it back to you saying they have done that, and you see no change (because you're clicking on the other annotation, in your mind both annotations are the same annotation when they really are not). So no, just create multiple annotations.
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #5) > > Perhaps the user-facing thing could create different annotations for different pages, so that it looks like it did go across pages? > > That's just asking for trouble. Imagine we do that, then you add a comment > in that fake multipage annotation (the thing that opens when you double > click). > > We could force the same comment to both of the annotations, but then you > send that file to someone else, they open it in Adobe Reader, they edit the > comment of one of the annotations, send it back to you saying they have done > that, and you see no change (because you're clicking on the other > annotation, in your mind both annotations are the same annotation when they > really are not). > > So no, just create multiple annotations. That makes sense, thank you for the explanation :)