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

[Pino Toscano]

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------- Additional Comments From pino kde org  2008-07-29 17:31 -------
 Will Jordan (comment #30):

> 1. Recent LibPoppler patches allow saving back to PDF files.

... but just for editing values of form fields, nothing more. (And Okular already makes use of that.)

> 2. Bundle the annotations XML with the document into a new bundle format
> (.okular), which would work with any document type but would be a solution
> specific to Okular and other programs that add specific compatibility for
> this format. 

Like said in the original bug report and in comment #1?

> 3. Rather than save the annotations XML into an internal directory, attempt
> to save it in the same directory as the opened document [...]

What is not that clear so far, it seems, is that the internal XML does not contain only annotations, but also various data (even "confidentail"), like values of form fields, the URL of the document, the last 10 steps in the vieweing history, etc.
And tracking two different internal files is not something that makes things easier.

 Volker (comment #34):
> Isn't pdf a format with an open specification?

Do I have to comment, or you can understand yourself that PDF readers and writers do not grow on the trees overnight?

> Also, I ([...]) expect annotatations to be embedded in the pdf.

And I would expect (not completely, but still a bit) people to *read* the previous 30+ comments in this bug report, before commenting. Oh, and I would also expect a bit more of patience, given that all the pieces in the chain have no infinite time.