Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion.

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dissabte, 22 de febrer de 2020, a les 11:23:26 CET, DIVESH KUMAR va escriure:
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> From: DIVESH KUMAR <f20170875 at pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in>
> Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM
> Subject: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion.
> To: <aacid at kde.org>
> 
> 
> Greetings
> 
> I am Divesh Kumar 3rd year student at BITS Pilani, India pursuing BE EEE
> and MSc. Math and I am looking forward to participating in GSOC 2020 and
> contribute to KDE.
> 
> First of all, I didn’t know how to contact you hence I choose to mail you
> if you would like for me to contact via any other medium do let me know.
> 
> I have been using Okular for a year now and love it for its customizable
> nature and many other features. I wanted to discuss a feature that I would
> like to see in Okular. Below I have tried to describe my idea.
> 
> While using the highlighter annotation in the app we can’t highlight nonOCR
> pages/text using the highlighter annotation for that we have to switch to
> freehand line/ straight line this leads to unnecessary interrupts while
> using documents that have a high number of nonOCR text or images like this
> image.
> 
> Here since the text below is nonOCR hence to highlight it I have to change
> my annotations from highlighter(yellow) to freehand(green).
> 
> I think incorporating this would result in a massive productivity spike of
> many users. Such a free-form highlighter would also need to have the
> ability to highlight in straight lines when needed as a normal hand will
> create shaky lines this can be done by using a key(eg Ctrl or Shift) along
> with the highlighter. Such annotations already exist in apps like Adobe
> Acrobat Reader wherein the rectangular highlighter is converted to a
> circular for when it is placed over nonOCR text or images and allows users
> to highlight nonOCR images and text.

You can already do straight line + wide + transparent annotations in Okular, what are you suggesting to add?

Cheers,
  Albert


> 
> This is the Adobe implementation of this.
> 
> 
> You can also look into the following discussions about this in the Adobe
> community.
> 
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/adobe-acrobat-dc-highlighter/td-p/9314442?page=1
> 
> https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/acrobat-dc-highlighting-how-to-highlight-in-a-straight-line/td-p/8332895?page=1
> 
> I hope to hear what you think about my recommendation.
> 
> 
> Thank you for all that beautiful code you guys have been writing for years.
> 
> Yours sincerely Divesh Kumar.
> 
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