[Okular-devel] [okular devel] Feature request: image snapshots inside the pdf for comparison

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Dilluns, 1 de març de 2010, Efstratios Gavves va escriure:
> Hi to all.

Hi

> 
> I haven't subscribed to the okular developer mailing list, I don't know if
> it is necessary. Anyways, I am using Okular since KDE4 was published and I
> have to say, it 's an amazing tool. I think it's one of the top pdf
> viewers. 

Thanks :-)

> Anyways, while using it a lot, I thought of a killer feature,
> that would be absolutely great to have and I think it's not that difficult
> with Qt4. That feature would be the following:
> 
> when dragging + right-clicking in an area(I guess inside the pdf, even
> though being able to select an arbitrary area from your computer screen
> would be even better), to have an option to get the snapshot of the area.
> Then, when just right-clicking, without any dragging, have an option to
> paste the snapshot in a pop-up window. That would be amazingly useful,
> especially for research reading. It's quite often that you need to compare
> two graphs, plots, images or even text and tables. Usually you have to go
> back and forth and have a mental image of the whatever you want to compare.
> With this extra functionality, this won't be any more necessary.
> 
> I don't know if this feature already exists, personally I haven't found it
> either as an option inside the program or as a feature request. If someone
> answers to this email, please reply to my personal email as well, because I
> don't know if it is necessary to subscribe to the mailing list as well to
> receive the responses.

You might want to use ksnapshot, it provides screenshoting of any area of any 
running application.

Albert

> 
> I hope I didn't wasted your time.
> 
> Best,
> Stratis