Re: [Pdfedit-support] Some questions/suggestions about highlighting and canceling

[Michal H. <ms...@gm...>]

On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 03:13:14PM -0500, hao chen wrote:
> On the topic of making pdf highlighting more user friendly, I was thinking
> if it is possible to have a tool to draw HORIZONTAL lines. As pointed out
> below, background highlighting is not suitable for this purpose due to the
> internals of text structure. That leaves underlining. There are two tools
> that can draw a line in the current version. One is the line tool. It is not
> very easy to have a line that is always horizontal. Alternatively, I've been
> using the draw box tool. You make the height of the box 1 or 2 pixels and it
> looks like a line. It is always horizontal but not easy to have consistent
> thickness.
> 
> Also, it would be useful to have the box tool draw only the border and not
> color the inside. This can also be useful for annotation.
> 
> Lastly, is there a  way to change the default color? It is black in my
> version.

Could you add your proposals to the bug tracker (http://pdfedit.petricek.net/bt/main_page.php) as feature requests?
Separate issue for each of them would be optimal.

Best regards
-- 
Michal Hocko