#526 Text Annotations in internal PDF viewer

[Anonymous]

I'd love to see text annotations in the internal PDF viewer.

For example the widespread PDF viewer evince/atril has support for
simple text annotations.
The annotation icons are already visible. I added two lines of code to
TexStudio (see attached patch) to show the annotation text in a
QMessageBox on click.

Maybe you could expand this feature to render the annotations into the
page, like evince does?

This would enable a simple review workflow for people who only review
the PDF, not the latex sources.
A reviewer could send the annotated PDF back to the author, who saves
the PDF back to the build location.
The internal viewer instantly displays the annotations and allows jumps
to the source code, since the syncpdf-data is still available.

I also sent this feature request to the mailing list for discussion.

[Tim Hoffmann]

Thanks for the patch. Better annotation support was on my list anyway. I've implemented basic support in rev. 4174:

• pointer cursor on annotations
• clicking shows them in a separate window
• when hovering over annotations, you'll get a tooltip.

Still, there is an issue with comments generated by pdfcomment :(

Poppler gives incorrect boundaries for them. See:
https://bitbucket.org/kleberj/pdfcomment/issue/7/viewing-annotations-with-evince
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/65769/pdfcomment-and-evince

But that's not something we can influence.

I've planned more annotation support, but don't know yet, when there will be time to implement it.