El dom, 27-01-2008 a las 21:56 -0500, Jeff escribió: > I read in the gnome 2.22 roadmap that evince should integrate the > annotations work from GSoc 2007. From the last time I tried trunk, > this feature does not yet seem to be available, so here are a couple > questions: yes it was our main goal for GNOME 2.22, but unfortunately it's not going to be ready in time. There are a lot of changes in both poppler and evince and poppler still doesn't support annotation in the glib bindings (used by evince). The changes in the poppler core has been added slowly, but they are already there. So, I'm quite sure it will be ready for GNOME 2.24, even in the early development releases of evince during the next release cycle. > 1- is this still planned and undergoing love? yes, Iñigo (the GSoC student) is working hard on it. > 2- will it allow the user to annotate ANY PDF file?* we have recently changed the default value of /apps/evince/override_restrictions to TRUE. > 3- is there a feature/bug report I can cling to, or a special branch > that I could help test? (disclaimer: I am running gnome 2.20) no, there isn't any branch :-( > *: I believe that it would make no sense respecting the annotations > permission (DRM) that is present in certain files, for three reasons: > 1- First because it hides the nice evince feature > 2- second because the user would go flip the gconf > key /apps/evince/override_restrictions anyway > 3- and third because 99% of all PDF documents I have come across don't > have those "allow comments" rights in the first place -- not because > the author (ex: teachers) don't want the students to be able to add > notes, but because he is not able to actually enable them! Even I, > using OpenOffice, have never been able to create a PDF document that > allows comments. > > Annotation is the killer feature that I (and other student friends) > have been waiting for, for a long time! Please keep up the awesome > work, I am certainly not alone to sorely need this! > _______________________________________________ > Evince-list mailing list > Evince-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evince-list -- Carlos Garcia Campos elkalmail yahoo es carlosgc gnome org http://carlosgc.linups.org PGP key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x523E6462
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