Manual creation of the outline for a PDF document

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 15 d’octubre de 2019, a les 10:11:16 CEST, Oliver Sander va escriure:
> Hi all,
> 
> > This touches the discussion how much Okular should be an editor, and there is 
> > still no answer whether we should have a separate PDF editor application. :(
> 
> given how few people actually spend time developing Okular, I really don't
> see a separate pdf editor application appearing anytime soon.

Why not?

Are people really that close minded that the prefer doing more work than needed to integrate something sub-optimally in Okular instead of creating a new application?

It's not like creating a new application is hard at all.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Best,
> Oliver
> 
> > 
> > Anyway, having the feature in poppler would be great, if there is some editing 
> > application some day. :)
> > 
> > Cheers, David
> > 
> > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:30:29 +0200 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
> >> El diumenge, 13 d’octubre de 2019, a les 8:56:41 CEST, Andy Sardina va 
> > escriure:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I am working on a feature that will allow a user to define the document's
> >>> outline (for PDF files). To be able to do this, I need to modify the
> >>> poppler to be able to write into the PDF file.
> >>
> >> I'm going to give you the same answer i give to the people that suggest
> >> adding PDF page removal/adition/sorting to Okular.
> >>
> >> I don't think Okular is the proper place for this and a "Simple PDF editor"
> >> application would be much easier, both in code (since you don't need to
> >> create public API for all that since Okular is not a PDF tool) and in user
> >> interface (since editing usually has different requirements to viewing).
> >>
> >> If you have questions about poppler i suggest you make them in the poppler
> >> mailing list 
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>   Albert
> >>
> >>> I am doing this, because some times, I generate PDF from images, or I get
> >>> PDF that doesn't have the outline (or TOC) and I would like to be able to
> >>> create one from Okular. For example, the Foxit Reader has this
> >>> functionality. Take a look at this short video to see what I mean:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Swedish Fairy Tales.mp4
> >>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ADdebIeWX5zdaKe7IMKIM6r-94Sryv-0/view?us
> >>> p=drive_web>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I have created a short document with some ideas of how I am thinking to
> >>> implement it, but I have been struggling to find a good design. I would
> >>> like you to give some impressions and tell me if is that the correct path.
> >>>
> >>> Here the document:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Poppler modifications.pdf
> >>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RLRTrTzDtSk0L-bw4yvb0ZT58DN2qkcl/view?us
> >>> p=drive_web>
> >>>
> >>> Have a nice week!!
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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