[okular] [Bug 301774] Wish: New option to save embedded annotation upon change/document close

[Inigo Aldazabal Mensa]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=301774

Inigo Aldazabal Mensa <inigo_aldazabal at ehu.es> changed:

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--- Comment #19 from Inigo Aldazabal Mensa <inigo_aldazabal at ehu.es> ---
(In reply to nizamov.shawkat from comment #13)

> 2) there may be an option of automatically saving the file with slightly
> modified filename (***-annotated.pdf). This way the original file remains
> intact, and all annotations go to the annotated file. Later if we open the
> file, and its filename conatins already "annotated" mark and there also
> exists a file with filename without this mark in the same folder (it means
> that we opened already annotated file and we have also an original file
> nearby), than the annotated file will be overwritten. What will you loose in
> the worst case is your annotations. This is how it works in Goodreader -
> very popular pdf annotation software which I use on ipad.
> 
> Preferably, both features should be combined - so that pressing "Save" will
> point to the folder with original file and suggest a filename with defined
> annotation mark. If it was detected that the file is already an annotated
> version of original, then annotated file will be overwritten without asking
> anything. 
> 
> [...]
>
> The advantage of such workflow is that original file is always retained - so
> this is safe. And you can always give someone the original file without
> annotations if required. 

I totally second this approach. In fact I was about suggesting exactly the same
thing.

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