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[Adam Reichold <adamreichold@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Oh, I almost forgot one point:

Am 04.09.2013 12:21, schrieb Adam Reichold:
> Hello Dmitrij,
> 
> Am 04.09.2013 11:56, schrieb Dmitrij Lisov:
>> Hello!
> 
>> Qpdfview is a very convenient and fast pdf viewer, especially
>> with the implemented annotation feature, which, nevertheless,
>> could be improved. Therefore I suggest the following:
> 
>> 1. The annotation text icon should be moveable and deletable. 2. 
>> The highlighted text should be deletable.
> 
> Making the text icon movable seems useful, but I am not I would 
> currently find the time to do this. Maybe someone else would, so
> this would probably be a useful single wishlist bug report to be
> triaged in the bug tracker.
> 
> Concerning deletable annotations, they are already deletable but
> we had until a bug report preventing that context menu from being
> shown until recently. [1]
> 
>> 3. Ideally, there should be an undo/redo function regarding 
>> annotations, triggered by Strg+Z and Strg+Y respectively.
> 
> This also seems useful, but a rather voluminous undertaking and
> way beyond my current time budget. Not sure if this on a suitable
> scope for a wishlist bug yet.
> 
>> 4. Currently, the borders of the left and right highlighted area 
>> are round. Please make them, so that you can highlight chosen 
>> passages with a vertical line. This isn't possible now, since a 
>> vertical line will look ellipsoid.

While this is true, I am not sure whether the problem lies in qpdfview
as the capStart/capEnd/feather properties of the highlight annotation
in the Poppler API do not seem to be respected... This *may* be a bug
in Poppler's Qt frontends or it could be that my usage is just wrong.
Definitely something that I'll continue to investigate...

Best regards, Adam.

>> 5. It would be very useful to have different highlighting
>> colours, but I think this will be difficult to implement.
> 
> This should already be possible in current versions: There is a 
> setting called "Annotation color" on the behavior tab where each
> user that is part of a collaborating group can choose a different
> color.
> 
> Of course another useful improvement would be an extended
> annotation dialog where not just the text but also properties like
> author, date and color can be changed for each annotation
> individually. This seems like a useful wishlist bug to be triaged
> as well.
> 
>> 6. There should be a sidebar (F9), that will show all
>> annotations in a document. 7. Annotations should also be indexed
>> and found by the search function (Strg+F) or maybe only in the
>> sidebar - this should be easier to implement.
> 
> Not sure these two a within qpdfview's scope as the project aims
> to keep it rather simple. (Even though we have like a gazillion
> settings by now... :-\)
> 
>> 8. That's the most important feature request: Show a save
>> dialogue when closing a document, if annotations were added
>> before.
> 
> This is already planned and will probably be tracked in the bug
> report [2] when/if there is any feedback there. (Or I'll just reuse
> the bug report after preparing the 0.4.5 release...)
> 
>> 9. Split the annotate function into two independent functions - 
>> highlight text and annotate - so that separate shortcuts could
>> be defined.
> 
> I am not so sure whether the additional interface clutter is worth
> the slight reduction in access time.
> 
>> I think, that these suggestions will hugely improve qpdfview. 
>> Please let me know, what you are thinking of them and if it's 
>> possible to implement them.
> 
>> Thanks in advance and a huge thank you for maintaining and 
>> improving qpdfview!
> 
> Best regards, Adam.
> 
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1214526
> 
> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217470
> 
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