[poppler] [PATCH] Annotation removal improvements

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Excerpts from Albert Astals Cid's message of mié may 23 20:01:08 +0200 2012:
> El Dimarts, 22 de maig de 2012, a les 00:44:26, Fabio D'Urso va escriure:
> > On Sunday, May 20, 2012 07:04:45 PM Fabio D'Urso wrote:
> > > On Sunday, May 20, 2012 12:27:52 PM Carlos Garcia Campos wrote:
> > > > Why doesn't Page::removeAnnot() also remove the appearances? I've
> > > > noticed that the qt4 implementation removes the popup and appearances
> > > > manually. [...]
> > > > What happens with all other objects referenced by annotations? I guess
> > > > they are all left in the document, should we remove them too? like the
> > > > appearances? [...]
> > > > Maybe we could add a Annot::removeAnnotFromPage (or something like
> > > > that) so that every annotation can implement it to remove the objects
> > > > it references and not referenced by others.
> > 
> > The attached patch defines a virtual Annot::removeReferencedObjects method
> > that each annotation type can reimplement. The base implementation takes
> > care of removing the appearance stream. The AnnotMarkup implementation
> > takes care of removing the popup too.
> > 
> > > I have some doubts about setting /P if the annotation has no /P or a wrong
> > > value, because that would mean that annotations are automatically modified
> > > as soon as the document is loaded.
> > 
> > This patch implements the following behavior:
> >  - When parsing existing annotations, /P is ignored and the in-memory
> >    page field is always set to the page which the annotation was read
> >    from (without setting or changing the actual /P value).
> >  - When adding a new annotation to a given page, /P is set accordingly.
> 
> Carlos, does this work for you?

Yes.

> We'd be commiting this to master only right? No sense in commiting to 0.20 
> branch.

Yes, master only, do you want me to push it?

> Albert
> 
> > 
> > Fabio
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