On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 10:07 +1100, Dave Davey wrote:
I am an editor for a scientific organisation. When I receive corrections to proofs of papers, these are often in the form of PDFs with "notes" inserted by Acrobat. Acroread displays these well. The positions in a file are clearly marked and the content, which can be verbose, appears in a popup, from which text can be grabbed. Now that Acroread for Linux is no longer supported by Adobe it would be good if evince could consistently display such PDFs and make available the notes in a useful manner. Unfortunately the notes inserted by some versions of Acrobat are all but invisible using evince, i.e. the position is indicated only by a small insert mark, and no popup is available. My first question is: Is this a problem in the evince code, or it it entirely in libpoppler? Can I usefully send an example PDF to someone?
Hi Dave, It also could be a combination of both, too. In PDF lingo, what you are referring to as notes (or sticky notes) are a certain type of annotations (text annotations). Those are supported in Evince (there are some glitches, but the bulk is there). The ones that don't show up, there might be pop-up annotations (they seem similar to text annotation but are not quite the same). Those are not implemented yet in poppler-glib nor evince, see [1]. However, I am just guessing. Better would be to take a look at the document. If it is not too big, you could send a sample document to me or a link where to grab it from. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=711738 -- Germán Poo-Caamaño http://calcifer.org/
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