Re: [gnome-love] Gpdf PDF highlighting support

[Rémi Cohen-Scali <Remi Cohen-Scali com>]

Hy Michael

All these features will be supported in next gpdf version. A dev branch 
have been created a few
month ago to support these devs. This branch is gpdf-outlines.
This branch have already a lot of new features (including the ones you 
are requesting) as explained
in the status I attached to this mail.
If you want to help, you are welcome as a lot of work still need to 
happend to reach stability
A status with screenshots exists but I didn't update it since a while 
(http://www.rcsnet.net/freeware.html#gpdf)
If you want to test it, you may extract the sources from cvs branch 
gpdf-outlines with:

export CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous anoncvs gnome org:/cvs/gnome"
cvs -r gpdf-outlines gpdf

Note that one of the feature you request is not yet developped, but was 
considered as
a sidebar associating some notes/annotations (saved in gconf for ex), to 
a specific point
in the pdf stream. Some examples of sidebar contents exists.
Please do not hesitate to contact Martin or me.

W. Michael Petullo wrote:

> Martin et al.,
>
> I am interested in developing a GPL'ed application that supports taking
> notes on a PDF file.  I would like to have the capability to do things
> like highlight, bookmark, comment on or draw diagrams electronically on
> top of an electronic document as if it was a paper document.  Rather than
> starting from scratch, I thought I would see if you were interested in
> adding these features to gpdf.
>
> My concept is this:
>
> 1.  Gpdf opens a file.
>
> 2.  The user can use various tools to hightlight, bookmark, etc.
> This information is automatically saved in some type of XML format
> (in ~/gnome2/gpdf-something).  The filename of this overlay information
> will be equal to the md5 hash of the original PDF document so that gpdf
> knows what overlay to open for a given PDF.
>
> 3.  Of course, the user can also erase highlights, doodles etc.
>
> I think this would be of great use to certain people.  Academics, lawyers
> and other people that study documents would probably find it helpful.
>
> What do you think?  Is adding this to gpdf feasible?  Or perhaps this
> already exists?
>
>