[okular] [Bug 499066] Okular no longer allows you to change the text bounding box with typewriter tool text

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=499066

sideskate at gmail.com changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REPORTED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|---                         |NOT A BUG

--- Comment #1 from sideskate at gmail.com ---
(In reply to sideskate from comment #0)
> Hello!
> 
> Problem: When annotating a PDF with the typewriter tool, you can no longer
> change the bounding box / container for the text in a pdf.  This is
> essential to move the text, get it to flow around the existing content, or
> if the text is too large/long for the box etc.  (Previous versions had
> little handles for moving the text about)
> 
> As of last week in Debian testing, this worked, but it recently broke.  To
> see if this is a KDE or Debian problem, I compiled okular from source,
> directly from git.  Version 25.03.70.  Both have the same bug.  Maybe it's a
> Poppler issue, idk!  Happy to dig deeper on this issue, I use okular
> constantly, and not being able to type comments is a blocking bug!  
> 
> (Now that I have it from source, might add an option to revert the
> annotation icons back to text only. The latter is easier to use & takes up
> less screen space.  That's a preference and not a bug, though..)
> 
> 
> Linux/KDE Plasma: Debian Testing / 6.12.9-amd64
> KDE Plasma Version:  6.2.5
> KDE Frameworks Version: 6.10.0
> Qt Version: 6.7.2
> 
> ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Dur, I'm dumb: you need to be in 'browse' tool.  Sorry!!

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