Created attachment 148892 [details] Highlighted text annotations but impossible to guess which ones contain notes When proofreading pdf-files a very common pattern is the use of a combination of visual highlighting combined with a pup-up note. The issue is that once the pop-up note is closed - there is no visual clue, that the highlighted text is actually combined with a pop-up note. It would be great if the highlighting itself could contain a visual hint. E.g. in the form of a small semitransparent square or dot at the end of the highlighting. This applies to the following annotations: highlight, underline, squiggle and strike-out. Workaround: point your cursor above an annotation and wait, the note will be displayed as a hint, after a small amount of time. However, this is annoying in cases with many highlighted text pieces, when only some parts are combined with notes. In this case you have to put your cursor above each highlighted text to check for notes. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Highlight text in a document. 2. Point to the highlight marker, right click, choose: "Open pop-up note" - to generate a combined "highlight with note" 3. Write your comment into the pop-up note and close the pop-up window. OBSERVED RESULT There is no visual clue, that the highlighting is combined with a pop-up note. EXPECTED RESULT There should be a visual clue, that the highlighting is combined with a pup-up note. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux Mint 20.03 Okular installed via Flatpak (20.04.1)
I was also bothered by this, and ended up at this issue. Happy to see I'm not the only one ^^ Some ideas for how the visual cue could be done, in decreasing order of my preference: 1. A dotted rectangular outline to the annotated target. (Or: 2. A small notebook/popup icon to the right of the annotated text. 3. User can choose any of the existing _Text markup_ annotation styles, which will be applied automatically to the annotated text if popup text is added. (Not necessarily preferred because of feature bloat.) If the annotation is not a text annotation but, say, a polygon or freehand shape, then the rectangular outline / icon can be placed based on the bounding box of the annotation.