1. Josef Kleber Avatar Josef Kleber
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viewing annotations with evince

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Hello, I have a problem when trying to view the annotations created by pdfcomment in evince. The details are listed at http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65769/pdfcomment-and-evince . It seems that evince is able to display annotations properly when they were not created by pdfcomment.

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  2. Josef Kleber repo owner

    I was contacted again by email. The problem is that evince expects /Popup in an annotaion. PDF spec declares /Popup as optional. All PDF viewers i know - ex poppler/evince based software - don't have a problem, because they respect PDF spec. So the ball lies in the half of poppler/evince.

  3. Josef Kleber repo owner

    You are lucky that i have to prepare a bugfix release anyway. I'm not very happy with adding workarounds for viewers ignoring the PDF format, All this works with Adobe Reader. OTOH, the change doesn't seem to cause problems for AR. As soon as I get reports that this "fix" causes problems with other viewers, it will be eliminated immediately.

    Can you please test this version (https://bitbucket.org/kleberj/pdfcomment/raw/467ccaf02894d77ccc7722ed77ec09f519159b3c/dev/tex/latex/pdfcomment/pdfcomment.sty) anf confirm taht it does work for evince.

  4. Josef Kleber repo owner

    Okay, thank you. But a double-click still doesn't work? That would mean evince/poppler still ignores the PDF reference. Does it also works with the internal viewer of TeXStudio? Does \pdftooltip work?

  5. Josef Kleber repo owner

    Yes, I was referring to the comment box. This does not necessarily include editing. This was introduced with the free version of Adobe Reader X. Before this was an exclusive feature of the full version and read-only in the free version. The tooltip is just the bonus. It's almost insane that the evince developers manage the bonus to work but not the basic feature by ignoring the PDF spec.

  7. Mikkel Kragh Hansen

    Hi Josef,

    Unfortunately, I still have problems viewing the annotations in evince and the internal viewer of texstudio. They work just fine in Acrobat Reader. I'm using pdfcomment.sty v2.4 along with evince 3.18.2.

    The following example will show the highlight correctly, but is not "clickable":

    \pdfmarkupcomment[markup=Highlight,color=yellow]{test}{annotation}.

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