GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 766302
The user documentation doesn't show highlight annotation when you search for highlight
Last modified: 2018-05-22 16:38:30 UTC
Hi, I was using evince to read a reference guide and wanted to highlight a certain text section. I searched in the evince guide for the term "highlight" assuming that what I wanted to do is called highlight text in the evince jargon. Expected result: It should have shown me a link to highlight annotation feature Actual result: "Why didn't the text I selected copy properly?" I personally feel that this is a major usability issue as the user is not made aware of a functionality that actually exists. I later on found out how to do this but for a while I was cursing the tool for lacking this functionality.
We simply cannot cover all words in a title / description, ever. We already cover two words ("select", "copy") If you "highlight" text you might want to "copy" text in the next step, and copy is mentioned. Hence I'm bold and decline this request.
André, I actually our documention is outdated... We have added highlight annotations but I believe these are not in the documentation, and this bug is about this (if we would have a page about highlight annotations then it would appear in the search). Therefore I am reopening.
Oh. Ah. Thanks and sorry! So what are highlight annotations in contrast to to non-highlight annotations?
It's exactly like highlighting a text in a book with a yellow marker :) If you open the annotation toolbar in recent versions of evince you will see two buttons. One for creating text annotations and another to create highlight annotations. You create them by clicking the button and then selecting some text.
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