[Poppler-bugs] [Bug 20193] Support for annotation editing and writing

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20193

Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc at gnome.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #4 from Carlos Garcia Campos <carlosgc at gnome.org> 2011-05-07 01:39:39 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #3)
> @Carlos: Maybe I understood the description of the SOC project wrong, but it
> seems that the student is not aware that Poppler supports writing annotations
> to a PDF document.
> By the way, if Poppler is able to do this, why is this bug not yet closed? I am
> confused.

Probably because we had forgotten this bug :-P

> Here is the quote of the SOC project:
> "A proposal for enabling Okular to edit annotations stored inside PDF files and
> also to make the Okular's own system of external annotations more practical and
> less confusing to use. The backend part of the work will be done in the Poppler
> library that Okular uses to access documents, the user interface will be done
> in Okular."
> http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2011/petrmej/14001

Well, AFAIK okular doesn't use poppler to save annotations, it still uses its
own xml file, I guess the project is more about okular than poppler, to use
poppler to save the annots, I don't know.

Closing this bug now to avoid more confusions.

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