Enhance Annotations to Include Viewports of Document Segments
Submitted by Rising Eagle
Link to original bug (#663596)
Description
Carlos, Thx for rolling up your sleeves to give us this long sought feature. I have an enhancement to this feature that I would like to see. MAKING READING PDF'S MORE NATURAL
I often read text books with tables. I have to flip back and forth from the-page-with-the-table to the-current-page. Hypertext jumps or tabs would help, but it's still flipping back and forth of full screens. Split screen would help, but you lose too much screen real estate. Often, the table is so complex or nondescript, that I forget details just by being distracted by the process of flipping back to the-current-page. By the time I'm back on the-current-page, I need to go back and look up the table all over again - very frustrating.
I would like to be able to select a segment of a page, or paragraph and associate the block of text or paragraph or image with a comment and have that segment hilighted or changed in a subtle way so the annotation attached is detectable.
Then I would like to have that segment viewported into a floating sticky note (aka postit or pinup note) that I can zoom down/up if I want, hilite/add comments to, close and open (from a list of annotations/viewports on the sidepanel?), specify to always float on top if I need, and be saved as if it is a real annotation. This way, I can constantly refer to the referenced segment as I might do with a real book and a photocopy of my reference page. And I can read normally with the table always visible at hand, but placed strategically out of the way or moved away when need be. This especially helps situations where multiple tables or segments must be viewable simultaneously.
Additional niceties: It would be nice if the viewport properties could easily be popped up so I can remind myself what page the viewport references from It would be nice if the viewport hyperlinks back to the-original-page It would be nice if, when I do hyperlink to the-original-page, the-current-page temporarily takes over being shown in the viewport and becomes a hyperlink back to the-current-page. It will revert automatically when I hyperlink back or return some other way (such as by scrolling back) to the-current-page.
Version: git master