The straight-line annotations work perfectly in non-OCR contents(an example of such content where you can't select text by clicking on it hence it can't be highlighted). But when a user is using the highlighter(annotation) in a document and he comes across a non-OCR content(that he needs to highlight) then he has to switch between a highlighter and straight line.
I assumed when you said wide + transparent that you were talking about width and opacity properties of straight line. Thank you for your time. On Sat, Feb 22, 2020 at 5:30 PM <okular-devel-requ...@kde.org> wrote: > Send Okular-devel mailing list submissions to > okular-devel@kde.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > okular-devel-requ...@kde.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > okular-devel-ow...@kde.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Okular-devel digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion. (Albert Astals Cid) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:34:18 +0100 > From: Albert Astals Cid <aa...@kde.org> > To: Okular development <okular-devel@kde.org> > Subject: Re: Fwd: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion. > Message-ID: <105496533.nniJfEyVGO@xps> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > El dissabte, 22 de febrer de 2020, a les 11:23:26 CET, DIVESH KUMAR va > escriure: > > ---------- Forwarded message --------- > > From: DIVESH KUMAR <f20170...@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in> > > Date: Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 2:39 PM > > Subject: GSOC-2020-Okular idea discussion. > > To: <aa...@kde.org> > > > > > > Greetings > > > > I am Divesh Kumar 3rd year student at BITS Pilani, India pursuing BE EEE > > and MSc. Math and I am looking forward to participating in GSOC 2020 and > > contribute to KDE. > > > > First of all, I didn’t know how to contact you hence I choose to mail you > > if you would like for me to contact via any other medium do let me know. > > > > I have been using Okular for a year now and love it for its customizable > > nature and many other features. I wanted to discuss a feature that I > would > > like to see in Okular. Below I have tried to describe my idea. > > > > While using the highlighter annotation in the app we can’t highlight > nonOCR > > pages/text using the highlighter annotation for that we have to switch to > > freehand line/ straight line this leads to unnecessary interrupts while > > using documents that have a high number of nonOCR text or images like > this > > image. > > > > Here since the text below is nonOCR hence to highlight it I have to > change > > my annotations from highlighter(yellow) to freehand(green). > > > > I think incorporating this would result in a massive productivity spike > of > > many users. Such a free-form highlighter would also need to have the > > ability to highlight in straight lines when needed as a normal hand will > > create shaky lines this can be done by using a key(eg Ctrl or Shift) > along > > with the highlighter. Such annotations already exist in apps like Adobe > > Acrobat Reader wherein the rectangular highlighter is converted to a > > circular for when it is placed over nonOCR text or images and allows > users > > to highlight nonOCR images and text. > > You can already do straight line + wide + transparent annotations in > Okular, what are you suggesting to add? > > Cheers, > Albert > > > > > > This is the Adobe implementation of this. > > > > > > You can also look into the following discussions about this in the Adobe > > community. > > > > > https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat/adobe-acrobat-dc-highlighter/td-p/9314442?page=1 > > > > > https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-reader/acrobat-dc-highlighting-how-to-highlight-in-a-straight-line/td-p/8332895?page=1 > > > > I hope to hear what you think about my recommendation. > > > > > > Thank you for all that beautiful code you guys have been writing for > years. > > > > Yours sincerely Divesh Kumar. > > > > > > > > [image: Mailtrack] > > < > https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5& > > > > Sender > > notified by > > Mailtrack > > < > https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5& > > > > 21/02/20, > > 14:38:48 > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Okular-devel mailing list > Okular-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/okular-devel > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Okular-devel Digest, Vol 161, Issue 35 > ********************************************* > -- *DIVESH KUMAR* *2017B4A30875P* [image: Mailtrack] <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&> Sender notified by Mailtrack <https://mailtrack.io?utm_source=gmail&utm_medium=signature&utm_campaign=signaturevirality5&> 23/02/20, 10:35:47