Task Proposal: eBook Reader

[todd rme]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Thomas Pfeiffer <colomar at autistici.org> wrote:
> On Thursday 19 January 2012 18:00:17 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
>> Why this is important
>> =============
>> Reading on a tablet is a key activity. Aside from web content, eBooks are
>> very popular. It is the primary use of many tablets on the market right
>> now, in fact. Okular is a good reader, but the UI is really clumsy for a
>> touch device.
> A PDF reader with annotation functionality is essential for anyone actually
> working with PDFs instead of just reading them (e.g. for academic purposes).
> Okular offers these, but e.g. they cannot be removed without a right mouse
> button.

Okular doesn't support embedded annotations last I checked.  The
annotations are stored in separate okular-specific files.  These
annotation files are not paired with the PDF files, so if you try to
give the PDF to someone else, or even move it to a different computer
that also has okular, you will lose the annotations.  The poppler
backend okular uses supports annotations, though.  See the enhancement
request for this here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151614

-Todd