[okular] [Bug 353401] Feature requst: "typewriter" annotation tool

[Tobias Deiminger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353401

--- Comment #21 from Tobias Deiminger <haxtibal at posteo.de> ---
> typewriter tool is to write text without any background anywhere (e.g to fill forms)
> inline notes are to add post-its like notes in the document (with a background)

Yeah, nice sum up, thanks!

Can we agree that both are for different user intent, but are technically
almost the same? I mean, both are FreeText annotations under the hood (one with
IT=FreeText, the other one with IT=FreeTextTypeWriter).

And both share the problem, that if we care for true WYSIWIG live editing we
can't simply use a KTextEdit widget, because it could only approximate what we
get in the end. We'd need something similar, but generator/poppler has to do
the rendering. Such generator-rendered widgets would be a new concept in
Okular, and they would need finer grained interaction of Okular <=> Poppler
than what's currently possible. Patch [0] is a start, but may still not be
enough. Do we care?

[0] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105796

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