[Okular-devel] Re: MD5 document identification

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Divendres, 8 d'octubre de 2010, Miguel Vazquez va escriure:
>   Well, that would mean saving the .okular file into a particular
> directory on my filesystem and then open that version next time.
> However, I maintain the pdf repository online and I'd like to be able to
> open the pdf by clicking the links on the online version, which would
> download a pdf new file into /tmp/ and would not be recognized by okular
> as having annotations.
> 
> My fix  is to save each pdf into a particular directory first time I
> open it, and annotations will get associated with the path of that
> version. Next time I open it I will detect I have the same file in the
> repository, by md5, and open that version instead (roughly). The problem
> is that I need to save an extra version of the file in that directory. I
> guess I could work around actually saving each file with a little work,
> but it will all be simpler if okular would make the md5 check itself.

Well, in the past we got complains when we did not use the path for 
annotations since people said it was a different file, and now that's why we 
use the path as identifier, adding the feature you request would annoy also 
these group of people, i guess one can't make everybody happy.

Albert

> 
> Anyway, its just a suggestion, it may very well not make sense to
> include that functionality.
> 
> Thank you very much for developing this tool, I found it extremely useful.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Miguel
> 
> On 10/07/2010 08:23 PM, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > A Dijous, 7 d'octubre de 2010, Miguel Vazquez va escriure:
> >>    Hi,
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> >> I built a system to centralize my annotations for a document collection
> >> I have of scientific articles. I like to download them from a central
> >> document repository online and have them use any annotations I had from
> >> a previous read. I used the attached script that uses md5 checksums to
> >> see if the articles is already in my repo and uses that instead of the
> >> downloaded one (the script might not work straight out of the box
> >> though).
> >> 
> >> Any way, maintaining my own pdf repo is a bit of a waste, I was
> >> wondering what you think of associating annotations with md5 checksums
> >> or something like that instead of file paths. For bookmarks
> >> unfortunately this does not work, because you need the path to open the
> >> file.
> >> 
> >> Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Doesn't saving as document archive (.okular) fix this problem?
> > 
> > Albert
> > 
> >> Miguel
> > 
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