Bug 499066 - Okular no longer allows you to change the text bounding box with typewriter tool text
Summary: Okular no longer allows you to change the text bounding box with typewriter t...
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: PDF backend (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian testing Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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Reported: 2025-01-23 18:42 UTC by sideskate
Modified: 2025-01-23 19:18 UTC (History)
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Description sideskate 2025-01-23 18:42:53 UTC
Hello!

Problem: When annotating a PDF with the typewriter tool, you can no longer change the bounding box / container for the text in a pdf.  This is essential to move the text, get it to flow around the existing content, or if the text is too large/long for the box etc.  (Previous versions had little handles for moving the text about)

As of last week in Debian testing, this worked, but it recently broke.  To see if this is a KDE or Debian problem, I compiled okular from source, directly from git.  Version 25.03.70.  Both have the same bug.  Maybe it's a Poppler issue, idk!  Happy to dig deeper on this issue, I use okular constantly, and not being able to type comments is a blocking bug!  

(Now that I have it from source, might add an option to revert the annotation icons back to text only. The latter is easier to use & takes up less screen space.  That's a preference and not a bug, though..)


Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian Testing / 6.12.9-amd64
KDE Plasma Version:  6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2

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Comment 1 sideskate 2025-01-23 19:18:52 UTC
(In reply to sideskate from comment #0)
> Hello!
> 
> Problem: When annotating a PDF with the typewriter tool, you can no longer
> change the bounding box / container for the text in a pdf.  This is
> essential to move the text, get it to flow around the existing content, or
> if the text is too large/long for the box etc.  (Previous versions had
> little handles for moving the text about)
> 
> As of last week in Debian testing, this worked, but it recently broke.  To
> see if this is a KDE or Debian problem, I compiled okular from source,
> directly from git.  Version 25.03.70.  Both have the same bug.  Maybe it's a
> Poppler issue, idk!  Happy to dig deeper on this issue, I use okular
> constantly, and not being able to type comments is a blocking bug!  
> 
> (Now that I have it from source, might add an option to revert the
> annotation icons back to text only. The latter is easier to use & takes up
> less screen space.  That's a preference and not a bug, though..)
> 
> 
> Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian Testing / 6.12.9-amd64
> KDE Plasma Version:  6.2.5
> KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
> Qt Version: 6.7.2
> 
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Dur, I'm dumb: you need to be in 'browse' tool.  Sorry!!