[poppler] inline notes? (poppler and pdf-tools/Emacs)

[poppler at jpgeorget.net]

OK, thanks for your answer.
It's more clear for me because I didn't see the difference between 
poppler and poppler-glib.
I will see what can be done for poppler-glib.


Tobias Deiminger <haxtibal at posteo.de> writes:

> Am 20.08.2018 13:49 schrieb poppler at jpgeorget.net:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I'm not a developper but I would like to know if poppler gives 
>> the
>> ability to add inline notes in a PDF file.
>> 
>> I use pdf-tools with emacs. It is based on poppler and it gives 
>> only
>> the ability to add notes with an icon.
>> 
>> The developper of pdf-tools could be glad to hear that poppler 
>> gives
>> to add inline notes (without icons but as text boxes).
>> See https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/149
>
> Adding inline notes (they're actually called "FreeText 
> Annotations") is 
> implemented in poppler core, and publicly exposed in Qt5 
> frontend. Sadly 
> it's currently not available in the glib frontend, so pdf-tools 
> can't 
> use it their preferred way.
>
> The guys at pdf-tools got it right already (cite from issue 
> 149):
>>> So that is something poppler-glib has to add on their side, 
>>> correct?
>> I think so, yes.
>
> Cheers
> Tobias
>
>> Regards
>> jpg
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