[Okular-devel] Review Request 109632: Annotation eraser

[Peter Grasch]

> On March 21, 2013, 11:29 p.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > It does indeed look cool, but is there a use case? I mean do you usually have so much complex Ink annotations that you need to cut them only partially?

For example:
1. Correct a shoddily drawn shape
2. Remove an accidentally drawn line over something else without having to re-do what's below
3. Change an "I" to an "i" :)
4. ...

Also, it much more directly mirrors what a user will probably expect from an "eraser" tool.

FWIW, these review requests are a direct result of me trying to switch from Xournal to Okular for taking notes in class. I implemented this because I thought it would be a nice feature to use - not a nice one to implement.


- Peter


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On March 21, 2013, 1:26 a.m., Peter Grasch wrote:
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> (Updated March 21, 2013, 1:26 a.m.)
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> Review request for Okular.
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> Description
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> Prerequisites: Please read till the end!
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> This introduces a new annotation tool: "Eraser".
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> The eraser primarily erases other annotations that it comes into contact with (shapes, lines, highlights, etc.).
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> However, ink annotations are treated more like a real eraser: Existing paths are split and unaffected parts are preserved.
> This is what it looks like: http://bedahr.org/eraser.ogv
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> Example tool configuration for your tools.xml (not included in patch):
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> <tool id="15" name="Eraser" pixmap="tool-eraser-okular">
>    <tooltip>Eraser</tooltip>
>    <engine type="Eraser" />
>    <shortcut>7</shortcut>
> </tool>
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> The eraser builds on the work for the outline selection proposed in review request #109627. Please apply that patch before this one.
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> Diffs
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>   ui/pageviewannotator.cpp 7bd7496 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/109632/diff/
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> Testing
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> While it worked fine for the few PDFs I threw at it on this relatively powerful machine, it was pointed out to me in #okular, that calls to modifyPageAnnotation are very expensive as poppler has to re-draw the pdf (with the annotations) for every change.
> I hope we can resume the discussion about possible improvements here.
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> Thanks,
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> Peter Grasch
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