Manual creation of the outline for a PDF document

[Oliver Sander]

Hi all,

> This touches the discussion how much Okular should be an editor, and there is 
> still no answer whether we should have a separate PDF editor application. :(

given how few people actually spend time developing Okular, I really don't
see a separate pdf editor application appearing anytime soon.

Best,
Oliver

> 
> Anyway, having the feature in poppler would be great, if there is some editing 
> application some day. :)
> 
> Cheers, David
> 
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:30:29 +0200 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>> El diumenge, 13 d’octubre de 2019, a les 8:56:41 CEST, Andy Sardina va 
> escriure:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am working on a feature that will allow a user to define the document's
>>> outline (for PDF files). To be able to do this, I need to modify the
>>> poppler to be able to write into the PDF file.
>>
>> I'm going to give you the same answer i give to the people that suggest
>> adding PDF page removal/adition/sorting to Okular.
>>
>> I don't think Okular is the proper place for this and a "Simple PDF editor"
>> application would be much easier, both in code (since you don't need to
>> create public API for all that since Okular is not a PDF tool) and in user
>> interface (since editing usually has different requirements to viewing).
>>
>> If you have questions about poppler i suggest you make them in the poppler
>> mailing list 
>>
>> Cheers,
>>   Albert
>>
>>> I am doing this, because some times, I generate PDF from images, or I get
>>> PDF that doesn't have the outline (or TOC) and I would like to be able to
>>> create one from Okular. For example, the Foxit Reader has this
>>> functionality. Take a look at this short video to see what I mean:
>>>
>>>
>>> Swedish Fairy Tales.mp4
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ADdebIeWX5zdaKe7IMKIM6r-94Sryv-0/view?us
>>> p=drive_web>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have created a short document with some ideas of how I am thinking to
>>> implement it, but I have been struggling to find a good design. I would
>>> like you to give some impressions and tell me if is that the correct path.
>>>
>>> Here the document:
>>>
>>>
>>> Poppler modifications.pdf
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RLRTrTzDtSk0L-bw4yvb0ZT58DN2qkcl/view?us
>>> p=drive_web>
>>>
>>> Have a nice week!!
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