View List of Bookmarks and add Metadata to them
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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qpdfview |
Fix Released
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Wishlist
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Razi Alavizadeh |
Bug Description
Firstly, a huge thank you for this light PDF reader--I love it!
However, a very important feature for me that this reader lacks is the management of bookmarks. Specifically:
-Support naming bookmarks
-Support adding a description to a bookmark
-Have a dock (like the Thumbnails and Outline) that lists all bookmarks for the file, including page number, bookmark name and the truncated description. Clicking on a bookmark in this list, takes you to the bookmarked page.
This is essential for instructional, academic and reference books--and the like--where you have to navigate around the book often, unlike a novel which you generally read back-to-front. Imagine having more than 10 bookmarks, and trying to find a particular piece of information you bookmarked; having only the page-number to go by is not enough so you must keep in your head what each bookmark points to, and, when you forget this, you have to jump between bookmarks until you find it.
See attached a screenshot of this functionality in obsolete kpdf2 (Okular's predecessor).
Changed in qpdfview: | |
assignee: | nobody → S. Razi Alavizadeh (srazi) |
milestone: | none → 0.4.12 |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in qpdfview: | |
status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
Hello,
thank you for your suggestion. Named resp. labelled bookmarks are available in version 0.4.7, more elaborate bookmarking management mechanisms are for the moment considered out of scope w.r.t. intended program complexity and available developer time. Sorry, I'll leave the bug report as triaged if I or someone else find time to pick it up in the future.
Best regards, Adam.