Public bug reported:
PDF with highlighted text displays instead with the highlight covering over the
text.
Used Apple Preview on Mac OS X to highlight certain lines of text with a yellow
highlight.
Evince has the yellow almost completely covering the text. The text is
"yellowed-out" (like blacked-out) rather than highlighted.
Installed acroread (from partner/commercial repo.). Displays the highlight
correctly.
Note: A rectangle annotation added around an image in Preview is
displayed properly in Evince.
PDF annotation/commenting capabilities should be added to the desktop
environment to match Apple. Adobe Acrobat Standard is US$299.00 and is
too much to pay for just this set of features and Acrobat Standard is
not available for Ubuntu. Mac OS X is US$129.00 and now includes this
feature.
Use case:
University student, receives reading assignments in the form of PDF or Word
docs posted to a wiki or URLs to public HTML or PDF sources. Student is
comfortable with paper-less online reading but would like to be able to mark up
text as one would a paper text book. The case of Word docs annotation is met by
OOffice. Web pages can be printed to PDF using built-in print to PDF in CUPS.
Once have PDFs, need to be able to annotate them.
I realize being able to annotate/comment PDFs may seem like a feature
request that would be low in a very long list of feature requests;
however, in the bigger picture, I have read how a major goal for
Canonical/Ubuntu Desktop is to surpass Apple and this is a feature Apple
has.
Before, by including PDF generation both Ubuntu and OS X were more even
in this feature area and both surpassed Windows. While Ubuntu users
could easily Print-to-PDF (from a web page for example when encountering
a receipt that says "print this for your records" when storing it on
disk rather than printing it on paper) or generate PDFs from OOffice,
Windows users had to purchase PDF generation software. This is still a
nice feature Ubuntu has over Windows. But now Apple has gone one level
more by adding the basic PDF commenting/annotating.
For the feature request, if the only Ubuntu users who would really want
this annotation feature could pay $$$ for it, then one approach would be
to instead have Canonical convince Adobe to make Acrobat Standard
available for Ubuntu, perhaps with the purchasing being handled through
the Canonical store along with the Fluendo, Parallels, and PowerDVD
products.
In the fact this is not feature request, it's a bug. xournal and kpdf
are showing the file in question like they should, but evince fail.
** Affects: evince (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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Evince Document Viewer: annotated PDFs do not display properly
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399478
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