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

[reini]

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





--- Comment #108 from reini <rrumberger web de>  2010-05-22 11:36:37 ---
(In reply to comment #106)
> > The situation is still the same: missing annotation editing support in poppler.
> 
> So why are you so insistent on that particular library.

Well, if we look at the parts you so generously snipped, we'll notice that he
listed alternatives and reasons why they aren't usable (well, sort of, anyway).

> > 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?

That isn't an alternative. You will *definitely* get the disadvantages
(incompatible data structures, to name just one), but you only get the
advantages if you're lucky - andvantages that outweigh the disadvantages, that
is...

> > 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.

So? At least Okular is providing something with what little resources it's got.
If you'd like to contribute some, go ahead. Otherwise show some gratitude for
the fine work being done here or take your bitching to some forum. This is a
bugreport and not a general discussion platform.

Just to have said it: I once had to work on parsing a PDF stream and am rather
glad that part of my life is over!
You don't just add a whole new set of functionality to a library within a
couple of days/months if that means changing its architecture. Especially if it
concerns a "standard" like PDF with so many variations and buggy documents
floating around. Be glad they found a way to read most documents, even a lot of
the buggy ones. Writing back to them is another matter entirely.

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