[Okular-devel] Possible GSOC project

[Jonathan Verner]

Hello, 

my name is Jonathan Verner and I am a PhD student of Mathematics in Prague.

I was contemplating to submit a GSOC project to enable okular to store
annotations in pdf files. My idea was to use the podofo library to write
the annotations back into the file.  It could either be implemented in
okular itself (say as a separate menu-item, or an option when 'Saving As',
or even saving it automatically when closing a file --- though that might well 
be problematic) or as a separate program which would be able to convert
between the xml storage and the 'pdf' storage.

I have already played with the podofo and poppler libraries and have
created a simple proof-of-concept viewer/annotator 

https://github.com/jonathanverner/comment

so I think the suggested approach is feasible, however I am not sure if
it is optimal (or even ok ;-) ). 

What do you think?  Would there be demand for such a project? Is it
a good idea?

Have a nice day,

Jonathan
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