[Okular-devel] [okular] [Bug 318798] Open PDF from command line with focus on annotation

[Chris George]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318798

--- Comment #30 from Chris George <technatica at gmail.com> ---
Okular is a PDF reader. It is multi platform. The ability to make an
annotation, assign it an Object Identifier and then have the identifier
available to open the pdf again at exactly the same position is highly
desirable for academics who do research. Having that identifier stay unique
through several edits of the annotation or the addition of further
annotations in the subject pdf and to be able to toss said pdf file over
the internet to a colleague for their input (as annotations) and then back
to the user over the internet to open it again at any of the annotations
that the identifier was previously noted for by an external application, be
it a reference manager or a script.

The goal is to allow another application (like Docear or a script) access
to the Object Identifier and the content of the annotation. Poppler allows
the pdf to be "read" by the script, then a simple diff to note the change
(Object Identifier) before and after the annotations, log the Identifier,
send the pdf out for comment, get it back, pull the annotations into the
outliner and open the pdf in Okular at the location of the annotation,
whether it be a highlight of a note wouldn't matter, the content is what
matters.

I use a multi-platform outliner called Leo as my primary editor and
information organizer. I want to be able to read a pdf, annotate it, send
it off for comments, bring it back, open it to any randomly desired Object
Identifier, read it and in the end pull the annotations out as text, via a
python script and into the outliner.

The hold up is that there is no cross platform pdf reader that supports a
static Object Identifier. And the only way to make it work in academia is
for the pdf to be standard enough to make annotations in a wide variety of
readers and the only way to make that happen is for there to be a standard
way of handling Object Identifiers.

Chris

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318798
>
> --- Comment #29 from Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> ---
> What does an external application has to do with this bug? You're asking
> for a
> feature to open a pdf from command line in an annotation, at which point
> and
> why would it have to do anything with an external application?
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