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

[Roman I Khimov]

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------- Additional Comments From rik osrc info  2008-08-02 06:27 -------
> Do you noticed that all people are talking about
> annotations within the document and not changing
> the content of the file?
Yep. And you effectively _change_ the file when you store annontations inside it. And that's what I don't want to have, at least by default. Hence writing this. Once again, it is _viewer_, it's not supposed to _change_ files.

> If you want to do that, hold two different files -
> the original and the annotated - you will have the freedom. 
Nice. Should I give an example when having two copies of, say, some contract document can lead to unexpected results? :)

> 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
Who cares about formats ability to store annotations? I can annotate _any_ format NOW (_exactly_ because of separate storage of document itself and private annotations), that's what matters. Just give some option to easily exchange this annotations and voila!

And if you make embedded-in-the-doc annotations for PDF then suddenly one format behaves radically different from the others. What's so good about it in universal viewer? And, to repeat, I have nothing against that as long as it is _option_ and not default one.

Don't get me wrong, I know it is requested, I do see the number of votes, and I'm _not_ shouting "kill this damn request, kill". I'm just trying to make some points that I think is relevant for discussion and that might affect app design considerations. After all, it's all up to developers to decide.