Hello folks,
I've been looking for a pdf reader that provides annotation support. It's a must for us research students that need to go through large amounts of academic text. I ran into this bug[1] that says that Evince would have annotation support in F15 (It was closed as "rawhide" long back). I'm on the latest F17 system, but I can't find this in Evince here. Would someone know what the status is? I've filed a fresh bug too.[2]
I'm considering moving to okular or xournal which appear to have annotation support out of necessity. However, I'd much prefer to stick to my gnome set of tools :)
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530238 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=825198
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Ankur Sinha sanjay.ankur@gmail.comwrote:
I've been looking for a pdf reader that provides annotation support. It's a must for us research students that need to go through large amounts of academic text. I ran into this bug[1] that says that Evince would have annotation support in F15
It is rather well hidden, but there is indeed annotation support in Evince. Here's[0] the help of the F15 version. (Note that if there wasn't any support, opening a Fedora bug would be unlikely to fix that - issues like this belong upstream)
Florian
[0] http://library.gnome.org/users/evince/3.0/annotations.html.en
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:30 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
It is rather well hidden, but there is indeed annotation support in Evince. Here's[0] the help of the F15 version. (Note that if there wasn't any support, opening a Fedora bug would be unlikely to fix that
- issues like this belong upstream)
Ah! Great!
Any clue why it's so well hidden? :-)
I filed the fedora bug so that the maintainer might be able to give some clues. I would've filed a bug upstream after gaining some information eventually :-)
I'm closing the bug with a link to the help document.
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 17:09 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:30 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
It is rather well hidden, but there is indeed annotation support in Evince. Here's[0] the help of the F15 version. (Note that if there wasn't any support, opening a Fedora bug would be unlikely to fix that
- issues like this belong upstream)
Ah! Great!
Any clue why it's so well hidden? :-)
That's a bug really. People had similar problems getting access to Totem's other sidebars. Annotations should be one click away from the View menu.
Feel free to file an upstream bug about it.
I filed the fedora bug so that the maintainer might be able to give some clues. I would've filed a bug upstream after gaining some information eventually :-)
I'm closing the bug with a link to the help document.
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 14:11 +0100, Bastien Nocera wrote:
That's a bug really. People had similar problems getting access to Totem's other sidebars. Annotations should be one click away from the View menu.
Feel free to file an upstream bug about it.
Hello,
I found an already filed bug[1] :-) The bug is filed against 2.9.x, and it's still applicable in the current version: evince-3.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64
So, should I file a new bug?
I am now looking for highlighting support, which appears to be a work in progress[2]. Now, with the new gnome3, there's another application called "gnome-documents". I am wondering if evince and gnome-documents are going to work together, or is evince going to be phased out in favour of gnome-documents? I mean, if evince is going to be phased out, it might be better to work on adding all the features to gnome-documents instead?
It's a little confusing at the moment: if you use the activity search box, documents opens up, but if you use nautilus, evince opens up.
Would someone know what the plan is?
[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649045 [2] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/evince-list/2009-November/msg00008.html
On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 12:37 +0530, Ankur Sinha wrote:
I found an already filed bug[1] :-) The bug is filed against 2.9.x, and it's still applicable in the current version: evince-3.4.0-2.fc17.x86_64
So, should I file a new bug?
No, one bug is enough.
I am now looking for highlighting support, which appears to be a work in progress[2]. Now, with the new gnome3, there's another application called "gnome-documents". I am wondering if evince and gnome-documents are going to work together, or is evince going to be phased out in favour of gnome-documents? I mean, if evince is going to be phased out, it might be better to work on adding all the features to gnome-documents instead?
It's a little confusing at the moment: if you use the activity search box, documents opens up, but if you use nautilus, evince opens up.
Would someone know what the plan is?
gnome-documents and the shell search will be the primary interface to all your documents, including preview. It will not support format-specific features and editing, though. That's best left to individual applications, such as evince for pdf.
I don't think nautilus launching evince is any more suprising than it launching oowriter or gedit. nautilus is just no longer playing the central role for searching and viewing all your documents that it had in GNOME 2 when rendering the desktop. That role is being taken over by gnome-documents.
On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 13:30 +0200, Florian Müllner wrote:
It is rather well hidden, but there is indeed annotation support in Evince. Here's[0] the help of the F15 version. (Note that if there wasn't any support, opening a Fedora bug would be unlikely to fix that
- issues like this belong upstream)
Here is a screenshot of it in action: http://mclasen.fedorapeople.org/evince-annotation.png
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