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</div><div id=":l" class="ii gt">Hi<br><br>I
wasn't sure if this mail belonged in the Okular Development mailing
list. So I had sent a personal mail to Pino first, which I didn't get any reply to. I am an avid user of your software and I
have a few ideas for additional functionality that Okular could
provide, which would greatly improve its usability for me, personally,
and possibly for other users too. Here are some : <br>
<br>1. Additional functionality for annotations in PDF files : Default
values of opacity, width, font size, etc should be adjustable. Another
thing I find very annoying is that Highlighting is not possible neatly
in a 2-column file. Is it not possible to figure out that a file is in
2-column format (some hack like looking for a vertical line of blank
space, maybe?) and adapt the Highlighting feature accordingly?<br>
<br>2. This should be simple: just a "Back" button in the navigation
toolbar (at the bottom of the window) so that it's easy to go back
after you've clicked on a link (a hyper-reference in a pdf file). <br><br>3. Library management : Would it be possible to have a management
of files on the personal computer from within Okular? I am a budding
researcher and I find this <a href="http://www.zotero.org/" target="_blank">tool</a>
(Zotero) very useful to manage all the papers that I have on my HD. It
would be useful to have this functionality from within Okular (much the
same as Amarok manages my music, for example). Along with the
annotation tool, this would greatly improve the usability for
researchers (and for other users as well?). It would need a way to
parse citations and download the papers automatically. Another useful
feature would be a snapshot of links in files, in particular, links
within the file. For example, if you could see a snapshot of an
equation, a publication reference (just the citation at the end of the
paper, say) or a figure when a reference to the item occurs in the
file. This would need a lot of indexing and OCR, I would imagine. I think some of this is present in a proprietary software for Mac users called <a href="http://mekentosj.com/papers/">Papers</a>.<br>
<br>I understand that quite a few of the ideas above may be hard to
implement and will probably take a long time to complete. But I would
like to know if any development is going on in that direction. The
recent development news in the mailing list didn't seem to indicate
that. <br>
<br>I am an undergrad EE student with some programming experience, but
no software development (nothing >1500 lines of code!). I would be
interested in joining the development team to help with these aspects,
if possible. Is there a large barrier to entry, in terms of size of
code or lack of experience? <br>
<br>Hoping for a prompt reply<br><font color="#888888">Navneet Sankara</font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>