[R] Tools to modify highlighted areas in pdf documents?

[Leo Mada]

Dear Ivan,

Thank you very much for the hint. I have started to test it.

- it offers more colours and types of highlighting than MS Edge;
- it seems to have better word-boundary detection than MS Edge (but I haven't tested all the cases yet);


There are some nit-picks:
- I wish it had a better default color-pallet;
- the vertical positioning continues to be sometimes sub-optimal: editing manually the coordinates may be still useful;

Returning to R:
1. Some of the pdf-packages could implement some of the annotation-functionality as well.

2. It would be useful to be able to export the annotations and import/merge them in another document. I have spotted errors in various articles; such a functionality would be handy, if a new version of those articles gets published.

Sincerely,

Leonard
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From: Ivan Krylov <ikrylov using disroot.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 2, 2024 8:02 PM
To: Leo Mada via R-help <r-help using r-project.org>
Cc: Leo Mada <leo.mada using syonic.eu>
Subject: Re: [R] Tools to modify highlighted areas in pdf documents?

� Sat, 1 Jun 2024 16:16:23 +0000
Leo Mada via R-help <r-help using r-project.org> �����:

> When highlighting pdf-documents with Microsoft Edge, the bounding box
> is sometimes misplaced, and quite ugly so. It also lacks the ability
> to draw lines or arrows.
>
> On the other hand, I did not get used to Acrobat Reader: it usually
> involves much more effort to add specific highlights. Lines can be
> drawn, but are NOT straight!

Sorry for answering a different question, but have you considered using
a different PDF viewer + annotation application? Okular
<https://eu01.z.antigena.com/l/iZmB5crNT773HTSUSt2S6McW6mdP5phHyzgXromFHINsN6Uo6BMnSdZK0kmSK~aLduXw-YpIAWy-DV9bac-5U3grBsLdYxuX7aMmbxQjKSLGCqTyJG54WQ2W7oaR2NEPTWiFotbkB4_eQTzHI3L-cAgOgsS4exJ4ie4BHLt > is free and available on Windows (including
from outside Microsoft store). Its annotation features include all
kinds of highlights, arrows and lines, both straight and
arbitrarily-shaped, quickly available from the "annotations" panel.

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Best regards,
Ivan

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