Hi everybody, ever since I started using org-annotate to quickly store links to a web page inside emacs I thought about its potential as a way to annotate any type of document.
In particular I have been interested in quickly annotating (linking) to PDFs (one of my job's main tasks). What I envision is a menu option that allows me to "annotate/bookmark" a given selection, which creates automatically an org-link to the desired document/page and saves the selected text. Of course this is not easy to do without hacking an application. I have given evince a try and I am very close to having it working. but I have talked to one of the Evince authors and he suggested a D-BUS service. Essentially the d-bus service would wait for clients. When a client sends the "bookmark" it would act accordingly. This way there can be many different bookmark servers (one of them org-annotation) and many applications would then benefit from this infrastructure. Imagine in a future being able to link/bookmark any type of document, from images (gimp) to open office documents. I haven't program a D-bus service, but I think it is not difficult. But at this point I have hacked evince and I am able to create org-links from evince (similar to the way we create org-links from firefox). If anybody is interested, and has being able to compile evince (not trivial) let me know, I'll make the patch available. --dmg -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with . _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode