[Okular-devel] Re: Possible GSOC project

[Davor Cubranic]

Hi Jonathan,

I have no doubt that there is demand for such a project, as shown by the
number of duplicate bugs filed on Okular's treatment of annotations.
Kudos on your PoC, that ought to help your GSOC application.

I'll let the devs on the list give their opinion of the project's
feasibility, and whether a mentor is available.

Davor


On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Jonathan Verner wrote:

> 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