[okular] [Bug 373388] New: allow user to have "merge highlighting and notes directly into pdf" as a setable option

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373388

            Bug ID: 373388
           Summary: allow user to have "merge highlighting and notes
                    directly into pdf" as a setable option
           Product: okular
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: major
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: emacsomancer at riseup.net
  Target Milestone: ---

So, on Linux, there aren't that many good options for PDF viewers which have
any kind of reasonable note-making/highlighting options which aren't both lousy
and closed-source (e.g. FoxIt).  Okular is an exception to this, but I've
managed to lose hours of work because it won't (by default) directly merge
notes and highlighting into the PDF file itself.

I understand that the developers seem to view this as ideal (i.e. Okular won't
alter the PDF file itself by default),  but it is really non-ideal for any use
case for me. Almost always if I'm highlighting on taking notes on a PDF file,
it's because I'm going to share it with someone else, and 98% of the time that
someone else doesn't use Okular.  

There really needs to be an option in Okular that allows one to say "save notes
and highlighting &c." directly to the PDF. It doesn't even need to be the
default option, just needs to be there (and I don't mean some weird workaround
like "Save as" or whatever it is currently, but a real proper "when I press
C-s, Okular saves my notes/highlighting to the PDF file" option.)

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