[okular] [Bug 397097] .okular archive should store the original file

[Sebastian Guttenberg]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397097

Sebastian Guttenberg <wurschtl77 at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #7 from Sebastian Guttenberg <wurschtl77 at gmail.com> ---
About the question, whether it is really a bug:

In the documentation of okular 
https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/kdegraphics/okular/annotations.html
it is written 
"Okular has the "document archiving" feature. This is an Okular-specific format
for carrying the document plus various metadata related to it (currently only
annotations)". 
And this is not true. Annotations are not stored in the metadata. 

A second point: if the annotations are not stored in the metadata anymore even
in the .okular - archive, then what is still the purpose of the .okular
archive?
What other metadata is saved there?
As far as I understand, the .okular format was created for the main purpose to
have document and annotations at the same place, without changing the document. 
If the document is changed anyway, then the format seems quite superflous. 
It wouldn't be, however, if it behaved the old (and documented) way. 

I also completely agree with ederag about all the benefits of having the
annotations separately. It's a cool thing that one can save them directly into
the pdf if one wants, but it is really a pity that it has become mandatory ... 
Unfortunately in related bug reports it has already been made clear that the 
feature of separate saving won't come back :(


I agree with all what ederag has writte.

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