Re: Feature idea: notes

["NIckolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Срд, 17/09/2008 в 17:57 -0600, Mister Ribble пишет:
> This is an idea that came up recently. Should the feature become
> enormously popular, I want to give credit where it's due. The idea is
> Marques Rasmussen's - at least, that's where I heard it from, and it
> sounded like he thought of it himself.
> 
> Anyways, the idea is this. Marq likes to download entire .pdfs of
> textbooks to read on his tablet PC. Just like with a regular notebook,
> he would like the ability to highlight, mark up, note, draw on, and
> generally customize the view of his virtual textbook. Currently, I know
> of no .pdf viewers/editors that have this very basic functionality
> (though I'm far, far from an expert in these products).
> 
> Thinking about it, I realized that implementation would be relatively
> simple. All you have to do is allow the user to enter a mode in which
> mouse clicks are converted into pixel graphics - just like a simple
> Paint program - which draws to an overlay. The overlay should be
> toggle-able. The overlay could (should?) be stored in a separate file
> from the original pdf, but loaded when requested. Of course, you could
> add the ability to specify stroke size, brush stroke shape, color,
> opacity, etc. But, overall, the idea is to simply allow the user to
> display an editable graphic (.png?) over the display of the document
> with variable opacity. It could be a plugin, or something that is
> disabled by default, whatever. But, it would be massively useful for
> tablet users who like to read everything on their tablets.
> 
> Please let me know if such a feature has been suggested before and where
> I could find information about any conclusions. It seems like such a
> change would be relatively easy to code for anyone with in-depth
> knowledge of the api for how evince displays a document to the screen. I
> would be willing to do it myself in a couple months.
> 

Hi Eli

I with you could subscribe on this list. Really this is important
feature we have not enough power to implement. Recently it was discussed
in annotations thread:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2008-September/msg00007.html