[Okular-devel] [Bug 151614] store annotations with documents

[Harald Nikolisin]

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------- Additional Comments From hochglanz muenchen-mail de  2008-08-02 01:12 -------
"First of all, IMHO, PDF/PS/DVI and some others are not supposed to be edited in any way (yep, I know about PDF interactive features and that's not sane, IMO). They're final, finishing formats, so to say. Changing such files is not a good idea. At least I'm not expecting _viewer_ to _change_ my files (yep, Adobe seems to be doing that and that's not a good reason to follow, IMO)."

A PDF file is basically noting else as a digitalized book. I'm reading a book currently, in which I make comments.
Yes, sure a book is also a finished format - but who's making the annotation of interesting parts on an extra sheet of paper?
Do you noticed that all people are talking about annotations within the document and not changing the content of the file?

"Then, there's privacy issue. What if I want to annotate some document, but don't want to share annotations?"

If you want to do that, hold two different files - the original and the annotated - you will have the freedom.
Currently you don't have the freedom to share the annotations with other or the freedom to share it with your second computer which use another pdf reader.

"Then, as Okular user with ability to annotate any document (not only PDF), I'd expect that it will also give ability to share this annotations for any document format."

I really like this kind of fundamentalism. Everybody knows the exact date when all possible formats will have the same ability to store the same amount of data (like annotations): NEVER
There is only a virtual reason to demand this - no real reason.

Everybody should respect everyone's opinion and the strength of the OpenSource world is that minorities could configure the system which is appropriate for them - but ignoring the wishes of the vast majority is for sure no good idea.

I can clearly understand Pino's arguments that creating good tools in the pdf area are a lot of work - but the goal have to be a viewer which has the ability to store annotations within the pdf file.

For everybody who needs that feature right now - have a look at the direct opponent of okular on Mac OS X - it's only called "Viewer" - with these annotation feature.