GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595589
filling in PS/PDF documents
Last modified: 2013-02-18 08:19:43 UTC
There is an interesting tool at http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html called "flpsed". It allows one to "mark up" (i.e. write on top of) a PS or PDF file. While it works sufficiently, it's kinda klunky, and TBH, disjoint from the process of opening a document with evince and then wanting to edit/annotate/fill it in. It would be nice this annotation/fill-in feature in evince.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168304 ***
After having been subscribed to bug 168304 and watched the progress there, while it's all good stuff, I am starting to doubt that that bug is actually a duplicate of that bug. This bug is not about being able to annotate and/or comment on a PDF but rather being able to superimpose text and/or graphic images (while re-sizing them) on top of a PDF file. The classic example is the PDF form somebody sends you that you (usually) have to print out and take a pen to to fill in the information fields and send the form back. I'd much rather open this with evince, perhaps draw a box where I want to start typing (i.e. on a space on the page where one would typically write) and then fill in the box with text. Draw another box somewhere, rinse repeat, until I have put all of the text on the page that I want. Most often I need to sign such a ftorm. For that case, I would want to open a graphic with a transparent background, place it at the signature location and resize it to fit the space provided. I should then be able to save that (optionally as a new file) into a "merged" PDF so that when somebody else opens it up, it looks as if I had printed the PDF, put it into a typewriter, typed into the fields, signed it and then scanned it and saved it to a PDF again. I'm going to change the status back to UNCONFIRMED until somebody can confirm that bug 168304 is intended to solve this use-case also.
Is there any plans at all for this feature?
It is the same bug. FWIW, you can see (or follow) all annotations bugs in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=evince&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=pdf%20annotations *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 168304 ***