[okular] [Bug 357526] Annotation can not be saved automatically for a specific PDF file.

[Chris]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357526

--- Comment #8 from Chris <inkbottle007 at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Henrik Fehlauer from comment #7)
> Saving annotations to the file from Comment 1 with Okular from KDE
> Applications 17.12 Beta and Poppler 0.61 worked fine, i.e. just the same as
> for every other PDF. Note that Okular now behaves like a normal editor, i.e.
> no more autosave.
> 
> Same for
> https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/actionscript/articles/PLRM.
> pdf.
> 
> Sean: I guess your issue was about being forced to use "Save As", which is
> fixed. If you actually want autosaving (e.g. every 5 minutes), please open a
> new wish for that.
> 
> Chris: Your issue from the first part of comment 3 is solved. Comment 4,
> i.e. being able to export annotations to a file, is a totally different
> issue, so please open a separate wish for it. Comment 5 concerns another
> topic again (removing annotations), which works just fine in Okular. This
> applies even to encrypted files (you might have to untick "Obey DRM
> limitations" in Okular's settings). Please open a new bug for any additional
> problems.

I was very fond of the specific behavior of Okular, consisting in saving
annotations in a separate XML file: The original file was never modified, that
is to say, not before the user was to perform some "export" action, and to my
opinion, it was very very convenient.
So we have to say goodbye to this behavior a la Xournal, or a la Gimp.
I hope undo interface will be better that what there is today: today there are
annotation actions which are very difficult to undo:
When one draw a thin line, or a rectangle, it is sometime difficult to put the
pointing device with enough accuracy on the line in order to be able to delete
it. Sometime, you can even have "invisible annotation", like a rectangle, so
small, that it is not actually visible, made by mistake.
In Xournal, the selection mechanism is much more convenient: you can draw a
rectangular selection, that select everything which is inside.
So my hope is that it will still be usable, and that we wont have to resort to
git to be able to make the undo.

Otherwise I've duly noted that the behavior has changed and that the bug is
fixed.
And that the change is to be expected from applications 17.12 and onward.

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