[Okular-devel] [Feature Request] Propose a "Save As" Filename from Document Title

[Brad Hards]

On Monday 30 November 2009 22:16:02 Hugo Mildenberger wrote:
> When viewing scientifc papers with Okular, it would be very convenient to
>  have a local filename proposal ready when using the "Save as" dialog.
This feature request needs to go onto Bugzilla (http://bugs.kde.org), not to 
the mailing list, since it will be forgotten here.

> Currently, I'm forced to use the mouse to copy author and title to the
> clipboard, then select "Save As", paste into the filename dialog, use again
>  cut and paste to sort the information into my scheme, insert publication
>  year and strip superflous characters like quotation marks, multiple
>  blanks, parenthesis and so on.
> 
> A solution certainly would be imply an heuristic algorithm, and certainly a
> handful schemes how to compile a filename from the available information
>  are reasonable.
> 
> I don't want to go into further details, but since scientific publication
> formats are pretty similar, one could use text attributes and regular
> expressions to sort information from the first page into a best guess.
> 
> One could also make use of the document properties, and make the proposal
>  user configurable using placeholders for author(s), year, title, maybe
>  journal name, volume info and so on.
You need to explain this a bit more (in the wishlist item on Bugzilla), since 
there are a lot of possibilities here, and you clearly have something in mind. 
Given a couple of examples, please explain how you think it should work.

Brad