[Okular-devel] Contemplating an interesting okular feature

[Mike McWilliam]

Hello All,

          I have a need for an interesting okular feature. I am
contemplating developing it... but... I am new to okular and want to
run it by the okular dev community first to get your opinions. Let me
begin with the problem I am trying to solve....

PROBLEM
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           I have a Nook which is really crappy at rendering PDF's.
Upon extensive review it is difficult to root and there is a lot of
risk of bricking the device. So I want a way of recreating PDF's
formatted for the nook screen (Small pages). I think/hope that one of
the solutions could be a useful feature. If not, maybe a couple
pointers from you all to get me on my way developing a custom okular
for my purposes.

SOLUTIONS
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           1) Simple: Use the copy and paste gui commands to
automatically generate a Latex document
                   Here the user would simply copy blocks of text and
images. Instead of being presented with options to copy the text and
images, you presented with options asking whether it is various
elements in a latex document (heading, equation, image etc..). All the
while this information is being recorded in a *.tex file along with
*.pdf's for the images and possibly equations.
           2) Use okular to copy blocks of PDF's into smaller pages
(paper size wise), then save it.

MY REQUEST FOR HELP
===================

             I am willing to take this on myself, but hoping to get a
little help at the start. Basically for option 1 I will need to know
where in the code the copy functions are initiated. Might need some
help getting it to compile. Naturally I don't have all these KDE
libraries and such.

Thanks for the help
Mike