https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318798
--- Comment #30 from Chris George <technat...@gmail.com> --- Okular is a PDF reader. It is multi platform. The ability to make an annotation, assign it an Object Identifier and then have the identifier available to open the pdf again at exactly the same position is highly desirable for academics who do research. Having that identifier stay unique through several edits of the annotation or the addition of further annotations in the subject pdf and to be able to toss said pdf file over the internet to a colleague for their input (as annotations) and then back to the user over the internet to open it again at any of the annotations that the identifier was previously noted for by an external application, be it a reference manager or a script. The goal is to allow another application (like Docear or a script) access to the Object Identifier and the content of the annotation. Poppler allows the pdf to be "read" by the script, then a simple diff to note the change (Object Identifier) before and after the annotations, log the Identifier, send the pdf out for comment, get it back, pull the annotations into the outliner and open the pdf in Okular at the location of the annotation, whether it be a highlight of a note wouldn't matter, the content is what matters. I use a multi-platform outliner called Leo as my primary editor and information organizer. I want to be able to read a pdf, annotate it, send it off for comments, bring it back, open it to any randomly desired Object Identifier, read it and in the end pull the annotations out as text, via a python script and into the outliner. The hold up is that there is no cross platform pdf reader that supports a static Object Identifier. And the only way to make it work in academia is for the pdf to be standard enough to make annotations in a wide variety of readers and the only way to make that happen is for there to be a standard way of handling Object Identifiers. Chris On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 1:34 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=318798 > > --- Comment #29 from Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> --- > What does an external application has to do with this bug? You're asking > for a > feature to open a pdf from command line in an annotation, at which point > and > why would it have to do anything with an external application? > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are on the CC list for the bug. > -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Okular-devel mailing list Okular-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel
