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Bug 770220 - Improve Highlight/Annotate
Improve Highlight/Annotate
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 771627
Product: evince
Classification: Core
Component: pdf annotations
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Evince Maintainers
Evince Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2016-08-22 07:55 UTC by Adam Hunt
Modified: 2016-09-28 19:39 UTC
See Also:
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Description Adam Hunt 2016-08-22 07:55:44 UTC 
As a frequent user of PDF highlighting I find the current interface slow and clunky. I'd like it if it were possible to highlight a section by click-holding the right mouse button and then dragging. Another option would be holding a modifier while dragging but ideally I'd like to see a mouse-only solution.

This could be extended to allow text annotations by double-right-clicking the desired location for the annotation.
Comment 1 José Aliste 2016-08-22 13:37:25 UTC 
So you are opposed to click on the annotation toolbar to have to highlight? Why is this clunky? there is a button for it, probably we could add a shorcut.
Comment 2 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2016-09-28 19:39:33 UTC 
Bug 771627 seems the same, with different ideas on how to solve it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 771627 ***