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[Dmitrij Lisov <dmt.lsv@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

I apologize for my late reply. University and job were very demanding the
last months.

So do you "approve" creating "bug requests" for the bellow-mentioned
proposals:

1. Make the annotations' text icon movable
2. An undo/redo function regarding annotations, triggered by Strg+Z and
Strg+Y respectively
3. Different highlighting colours

4:
I've noticed, that it's possible to add some notes to a highlighted area.
Isn't it redundant, since the text annotation function does exactly the
same? Maybe the problem with the ellipsoid boarders would go away, if
another highlighting method would be added? Additionally, the text within a
highlighted note isn't shown in Adobe Reader anyway.

As for 6 and 7:
Students and other knowledge workers would immensely benefit from this
feature, since it's not always easy to remember on which page an often
valuable thought was noted. The sidebar could show them at a glance,
completely, with a reference to the according page. There is no need to
reference to highlighted passages though.

9:
I can only speak for myself, but I'm using the highlight option far more
than the text annotation one. Therefore the text annotation feature slows
the highlighting process, because you have to select between these two,
when triggering the annotations function. So, imho, they should be
separated for usability and speed reasons.

Best regards!

D


2013/9/4 Adam Reichold <adamreichold@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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> Am 04.09.2013 19:20, schrieb Adam Reichold:
> > 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...
>
> ...to this problem: From the Poppler source code:
>
> quad.capStart = true;       // unlinked quads are always capped
> quad.capEnd = true;         // unlinked quads are always capped
> quad.feather = 0.1;         // default feather
>
> So since unlinked quads are supposed to always be capped, I am not
> sure there is anything we can do about this. (There are other
> annotation types for drawing lines and such which could be added to
> qpdfview, but again this undertaking would, well, take some time I am
> not sure I have at the moment.)
>
> Best regards, Adam.
>
> > 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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