Native PDF annotating under linux has long been a bugbear of mine and something I’d almost given up hope ever being properly supported. Until, that is, I stumbled across this post describing the process in new versions of Okular.
Discovering this also led me to look deeper, and to discover that Evince also supports PDF annotations, and has done for quite some time! See this post for more information on Evince.
With luck, we’ll soon see the ability to simply add annotations and save, rather than requiring saving annotated PDFs as new documents in order for changes to remain.
Once in a while I am looking around if there is finally a way to properly annotate PDF in Linux. The answer was no until a couple of months ago. But I think it is still little known.
Even in this post, whose comments made me have a close look again, did see the option of embedding annotations into PDF. The comments, however, point to Okular which is a very good reader since quite some time, and a more or less recent version of poppler the PDF library.
The way to go is to make annotations with Okular (use the review tool (F6)) and then save the PDF with “save as”. Now the annotations are embedded into the pdf file. I tested the annotations with the Adobe Android reader and I can view them and alter them with it.
Unfortunately this information is hidden in the Okular handbook and…
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