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

[reini]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151614





--- Comment #104 from reini <rrumberger web de>  2010-05-21 21:33:29 ---
(In reply to comment #103)
> (In reply to comment #101)
> > I have seen those arguments too, but ...
> > 
> > > 1. libpoppler was created with the intention of a readonly library therefore it
> > > does not support writing back to the pdf stream.
> > 
> > *input* library has nothing to do with *output* library. "Print to PDF" works
> > for many years already, so "copy to PDF and add annotations" might be an easy
> > enough task to do, even if it was outside poppler. (The separation might even
> > be positive.)
> No, it is not.

Why not? Dividing jobs among several programs/libraries to create more complex
functionality is quite common in Unix environments and for good reasons.

> > > 2. The okular developers are satisfied enough with the situation as it is
> > > today. As they do it in their spare time they do not want to spend too much
> > > time on this.
> > 
> > Spare time service does not imply unprofessional or lousy although the current
> > status quo does seem that way. It would be at least nice to see some priority
> > list of the bugs to know how far in the queue we are.
> So show us the code.

What's that got to do with anything?

> > Besides that I think there *are* paid people who contribute to okular and KDE
> > in general.
> Thanks. This is exactly the kind of poison which made two developers (including
> a maintainer) to leave the project. If this is your contribution to the
> discussion (where you missed some point to say the least) please refrain from
> doing it again.

What crept up *your* pants? Why do you even bother to post, when you have
nothing useful to contribute? This is exactly the kind of poison... (well, I
guess you know the rest)

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