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New question #406773 on qpdfview:
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You have created my favourite PDF viewer. Only one issue affecting highlighting forces me to use a certain non-free alternative quite often. I wish that this could change.

The problem: The highlighting feature currently adds a rectangle of colour. This is cumbersome when highlighting written text: if one wants to highlight 1,5 lines of text for example, then one needs to highlight the first row and then highlight the last (half) row separately.

The proposed solution: I would prefer to do ordinary text selection while the highlighting mode is on and get the exact selected text highlighted. Because CTRL-A is reserved already for annotations and square patches of colour, then give us CTRL-H or something, that automatically highlights every word that one selects.

Note that the current (cumbersome) way of highlighting is absolutely needed for scanned PDF:s. We need both.

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ps. Some extra ideas: the highlight colour names in the settings could be followed by a rectangle of that colour (so that we can see what it is). Optionally a fixed colour chart could be popped up from a toolbar button. Or maybe some people prefer underlining? Sometimes overstrike would be usefull. These are just style issues really. 

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