<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">The straight-line annotations work perfectly in non-OCR contents(an example of such content where you can't select text by clicking on it hence it can't be highlighted).</div><div dir="ltr">But when a user is using the highlighter(annotation) in a document and he comes across a non-OCR content(that he needs to highlight) then he has to switch between a highlighter and straight line.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I assumed when you said wide + transparent that you were talking about width and opacity properties of straight line.</div><div>Thank you for your time.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:30 PM <<a href="mailto:okular-devel-request@kde.org">okular-devel-request@kde.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Send Okular-devel mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. Re: Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion. (Albert Astals Cid)<br>
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Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:34:18 +0100<br>
From: Albert Astals Cid <<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org" target="_blank">aacid@kde.org</a>><br>
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Subject: Re: Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion.<br>
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El dissabte, 22 de febrer de 2020, a les 11:23:26 CET, DIVESH KUMAR va escriure:<br>
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> From: DIVESH KUMAR <<a href="mailto:f20170875@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in" target="_blank">f20170875@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in</a>><br>
> Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM<br>
> Subject: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion.<br>
> To: <<a href="mailto:aacid@kde.org" target="_blank">aacid@kde.org</a>><br>
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> Greetings<br>
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> I am Divesh Kumar 3rd year student at BITS Pilani, India pursuing BE EEE<br>
> and MSc. Math and I am looking forward to participating in GSOC 2020 and<br>
> contribute to KDE.<br>
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> First of all, I didn’t know how to contact you hence I choose to mail you<br>
> if you would like for me to contact via any other medium do let me know.<br>
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> I have been using Okular for a year now and love it for its customizable<br>
> nature and many other features. I wanted to discuss a feature that I would<br>
> like to see in Okular. Below I have tried to describe my idea.<br>
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> While using the highlighter annotation in the app we can’t highlight nonOCR<br>
> pages/text using the highlighter annotation for that we have to switch to<br>
> freehand line/ straight line this leads to unnecessary interrupts while<br>
> using documents that have a high number of nonOCR text or images like this<br>
> image.<br>
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> Here since the text below is nonOCR hence to highlight it I have to change<br>
> my annotations from highlighter(yellow) to freehand(green).<br>
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> I think incorporating this would result in a massive productivity spike of<br>
> many users. Such a free-form highlighter would also need to have the<br>
> ability to highlight in straight lines when needed as a normal hand will<br>
> create shaky lines this can be done by using a key(eg Ctrl or Shift) along<br>
> with the highlighter. Such annotations already exist in apps like Adobe<br>
> Acrobat Reader wherein the rectangular highlighter is converted to a<br>
> circular for when it is placed over nonOCR text or images and allows users<br>
> to highlight nonOCR images and text.<br>
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You can already do straight line + wide + transparent annotations in Okular, what are you suggesting to add?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Albert<br>
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> This is the Adobe implementation of this.<br>
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> You can also look into the following discussions about this in the Adobe<br>
> community.<br>
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> <a href="https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/adobe-acrobat-dc-highlighter/td-p/9314442?page=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/adobe-acrobat-dc-highlighter/td-p/9314442?page=1</a><br>
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> <a href="https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/acrobat-dc-highlighting-how-to-highlight-in-a-straight-line/td-p/8332895?page=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/acrobat-dc-highlighting-how-to-highlight-in-a-straight-line/td-p/8332895?page=1</a><br>
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> I hope to hear what you think about my recommendation.<br>
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> Thank you for all that beautiful code you guys have been writing for years.<br>
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> Yours sincerely Divesh Kumar.<br>
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