New question #406773 on qpdfview:
https://answers.launchpad.net/qpdfview/+question/406773

You have created my favourite PDF viewer. Only one issue affecting highlighting 
forces me to use a certain non-free alternative quite often. I wish that this 
could change.

The problem: The highlighting feature currently adds a rectangle of colour. 
This is cumbersome when highlighting written text: if one wants to highlight 
1,5 lines of text for example, then one needs to highlight the first row and 
then highlight the last (half) row separately.

The proposed solution: I would prefer to do ordinary text selection while the 
highlighting mode is on and get the exact selected text highlighted. Because 
CTRL-A is reserved already for annotations and square patches of colour, then 
give us CTRL-H or something, that automatically highlights every word that one 
selects.

Note that the current (cumbersome) way of highlighting is absolutely needed for 
scanned PDF:s. We need both.

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ps. Some extra ideas: the highlight colour names in the settings could be 
followed by a rectangle of that colour (so that we can see what it is). 
Optionally a fixed colour chart could be popped up from a toolbar button. Or 
maybe some people prefer underlining? Sometimes overstrike would be usefull. 
These are just style issues really. 

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