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

[Michal Svoboda]

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





--- Comment #106 from Michal Svoboda <kde spatium org>  2010-05-22 09:17:40 ---
> The situation is still the same: missing annotation editing support in poppler.

So why are you so insistent on that particular library. Suppose poppler can't
do that and won't do that. Then it's just the same as waiting for the linux
kernel to have it implemented.

What are the other options?

> > I would certainly welcome an official answer too.
> 
> Like the ones that have been said for years? For example, comments #21, #44,
> and #65.

Well, one of the usual bullshit responses among those suggests that this is not
really your problem but it's with poppler so we should go ASK THEM (tm). But I
as a user don't really care if your problem lies in poppler or double whopper
or whatever.

I use your program, not the library. You use the library, you know what to ask
them for. Why do you expect us the users to know better than you, and why do
you expect us to do your job (integrating the library) for you?

And about the "has been said for years". I admire your patience. I really do,
because if I was in your shoes I would just code the thing instead of takling
for years about how it can't be done. And maybe if this issue goes for another
couple of years I'll just do it for you.

> poppler's architecture can, and is being (slowly) changed, but the main job is
> missing.

In the meantime we are kindly asked to use another PDF product.

> in short: you get, potentially, the advantanges of two libraries,
> but also the problems of two different libraries at once.

Let's try it and see which one it was?

> I have seen so far nobody (who isn't a poppler developer already) providing any
> kind of work for annotation-related tasks.

That's unfortunately how it's gonna be. Not every Okular user is a hacker and
even if he is he might not be interested in the learning curve associated with
hacking Okular. Remember there is a lot of other broken software out there.

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