[Okular-devel] Possible bug with annotations?

[Edward Rosten]

Just to follow up, I've tried two versions. The one from Ubuntu 13.04
(Reported as 0.16.5) and the version from git. Curiously that version
compiled but gives all the colours inverted in the display.

Regards

-Ed


On 16 December 2013 17:16, Edward Rosten <edward.rosten at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm having a problem with annotations and I'm not sure if it's a bug.
>
> I've attached 3 files. The original is hello.pdf, a very plain PDF
> made with PDFlatex.
>
> The next file hello-okular.pdf has been annotated with okular. The
> problem with this file is that annotations don't appear in all
> readers. They don't appear in xpdf and (worse) don't appear in the PDF
> reader built into gmail, or the one built into Firefox. They do appear
> in evince, okular and Acrobat Reader.
>
> For the final file, I loaded hello-okular.pdf into Acrobat Reader and
> saved as hello-okular-adobereader.pdf without making any explicit
> modifications. Now the annotations appear in all readers.
>
> It appears that the annotations only semi-work in other PDF readers at
> the moment. I also have a vague memory which I can't verify that
> okular annotations have previously been readable in xpdf (and
> presumably the others, though I don't remember).
>
> Is this a bug?
>
> Regards
>
> -Ed