Evince doesn't display notes exported by LibreOffice

[wvarner]

Binary package hint: evince

Ubuntu: Jaunty
Evince: 2.26.0

To Reproduce:
1. Create an openoffice writer document (only version 3 and later), and insert a note.
2. Go to File->Export as PDF, make sure "Export Notes" is checked, and then export the document
3. Open the exported document in evince

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Provide some way to display the notes in the document that were exported by openoffice

ACTUAL BEHAVIOR

There doesn't seem to be a way to display the notes exported by openoffice

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

I've created a test document with openoffice and neither evince / acroread are able to see the notes, are you sure it's exporting the notes? Probably it's a bug with openoffice.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.

[johnny5 (johnny5-i12)]

I have added an image of an opened pdf document in Evince and in Adobe reader side by side and the notes are missing in Evince.
I will attach the pdf and the odf files.

[johnny5 (johnny5-i12)]

The original ODF file.

[johnny5 (johnny5-i12)]

The exported PDF from OpenOffice 3.1.1 (build 9420) on Karmic with the export notes marked.

[johnny5 (johnny5-i12)]

Changed after adding more information about this bug.

[Xavi (xavidp)]

Confirmed: same behaviour to me. This made me start using acroread instead of evince... and all my university students, since my comments on their work are at the pdf. A pity we can't use evince because of that...

[Steve Loosley (steve-loosley)]

Confirmed. I created a document in LibreOffice Writer 3.3.2, added comments, and exported the document with comments. However, when I opened the document in Evince, the comments are greyed out and cannot be read.

I also tested reading the PDF with Acrobat and discovered that the comments were indeed readable. However, when viewed with Preview on a Mac, again the comments are greyed out and illegible.

[Goyo (goyodiaz)]

I don't think the link to gnome-bugs #168304 is correct. That's about adding annotations support to evince (and it's indeed fixed, evince has annotation support from some time ago), this is about evince not sowing annotations created by openoffice/libreoffice.

[Simos Xenitellis  (simosx)]

@Goyo: Indeed, gnome-bugs #168304 is about having the ability to add annotations to the PDF document that is being viewed.

We need to find the proper bug report for Evince and add it in this report.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Test document displays verbatim to Reader in Trusty.