[okular] [Bug 445897] You can't highlight across pages

[strangequark]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445897

--- Comment #6 from strangequark <random1123581321 at protonmail.com> ---
(In reply to Albert Astals Cid from comment #5)
> > Perhaps the user-facing thing could create different annotations for different pages, so that it looks like it did go across pages?
> 
> That's just asking for trouble. Imagine we do that, then you add a comment
> in that fake multipage annotation (the thing that opens when you double
> click). 
> 
> We could  force the same comment to both of the annotations, but then you
> send that file to someone else, they open it in Adobe Reader, they edit the
> comment of one of the annotations, send it back to you saying they have done
> that, and you see no change (because you're clicking on the other
> annotation, in your mind both annotations are the same annotation when they
> really are not).
> 
> So no, just create multiple annotations.

That makes sense, thank you for the explanation :)

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