Annotations not readable in okular

Ok, I'll try to reproduce this in a moment. By the way, after a comment on qt-apps.org, I tested this with Adobe's acroread under Ubuntu 12.10 and it worked correctly. I am sure we'll figure out the incompatibilities.

Thank you, very kind of you.

Ok, using a virtual machine running an up-to-date Kubuntu 12.10 and the daily builds of qpdfview, I was able to reproduce this: qpdfview is able to edit the annotations generated by Okular but Okular can not edit the annotations created by qpdfview. (I tested text annotations only for the moment.) (The annotation seems to be there but its contents is not accessible.)

Now I have to find out why...

Yes, just as you described.

By the way, this feature of qpdfview will free me from KDE whose Okular is the main (if not the sole) reason I keep that bloated DE.

Small update on this: Can you confirm that you can access the annotation using the navigation pane on the left? The annotation overview there should show the annotation and one can open it. What seems to be missing is just opening the annotation by double-clicking on the icon...

Ok, I think I figured this one out: The problem is that Okular interprets the boundary of a text annotation differently from qpdfview. qpdfview activates the annotation if the user clicks somewhere in its boundary even though the icon is only visible in the lower left corner. Okular on the other hand activates the annotation if the user clicks the upper left corner of the boundary with the icon size. But the icons is drawn by Poppler in the lower left corner, so one clicks on the icon and nothing happens. But if one clicks on the empty space which is the upper left corner, Okular opens the annotation... Can you confirm this behaviour?

Ok, I hopefully committed the necessary changes to trunk revision 635.

If you could test this, it would be very much appreciated. It will take a few hours for the dailydeb package to update though. But you could try building from source. If you need any help will this, feel free to ask here.

Sorry for late response, have just sit in front of the computer.

This will sound dumb, but how can I download that trunk 635?

The lates, 0.3.5beta1?

Sorry, found 635 and downloaded it.

As the dailydeb finished building trunk revision 637, you can also just try the PPA at "https://code.launchpad.net/~adamreichold/+archive/qpdfview-dailydeb". Other than that the current head of trunk can always be downloaded as a tarball at "https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~adamreichold/qpdfview/trunk/revision/head:". But you seem to be on your way...

Thanks for dailydeb!

Yes, it works now.

That's good to know. The fix will be part of release 0.3.5 and will hit the corresponding packages. Thanks for taking the time to report it.

My pleasure.