Issue 62625 in chromium: Text annotations missing in builtin PDF viewer
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New issue 62625 by edemaine: Text annotations missing in builtin PDF viewer
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62625
Chrome Version : 8.0.552.28 (Official Build 64647) beta
URLs (if applicable) :
http://erikdemaine.org/outgoing/test.pdf
http://erikdemaine.org/outgoing/test2.pdf
Other browsers tested:
earlier Chrome versions with Adobe Acrobat 9 plugin: OK
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Visit either of the URLs above.
What is the expected result?
Hovering or clicking on the yellow bubble in test.pdf should display the
popup "This is a sticky note". test2.pdf should display such a bubble, and
hovering or clicking on it should display "This is some note text."
What happens instead?
test.pdf displays the yellow bubble but it cannot be activated. test2.pdf
does not show a bubble at all, nor can it be activated. Also, according to
my reading of the PDF 1.6 standard, the yellow bubble in test.pdf should
not scale when zooming ("behave as if the NoZoom and NoRotate annotation
flags ... were always set").
Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.
I consider the rendering of sticky notes/text annotations to be relatively
important, because when exporting PowerPoint slides to PDF, Adobe Acrobat
offers the option of exporting all speakers' notes as text annotations.
Therefore I assume (but have not verified) that this use-case is very
common.
test2.pdf is generated directly from PowerPoint + Acrobat. test.pdf is
generated directly in Acrobat to test various types of "annotations". All
types of annotations (pen, line, text, callout) seem to work *except* for
Sticky Note AKA text annotation.
Text annotations are described on page 586 (Chapter 8) of the PDF 1.6
reference manual.
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Comment #3 on issue 62625 by toaster...@gmail.com: Text annotations missing
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62625
If there isn't an easy fix available, could the presence of these be
detected?
In the interim until a proper fix, it could display the ordinary ``Parts of
this document could not be displayed, install Adobe Reader?'' bar that
occasionally occurs.
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Comment #4 on issue 62625 by wayne.br...@gmail.com: Text annotations
Any update on this? Many pdf documents we see have these notes and
therefore we cannot use the chrome viewer.
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Comment #6 on issue 62625 by curtin.c...@gmail.com: Text annotations
Has there been any update on this issue?
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Comment #8 on issue 62625 by jan.toso...@gmail.com: Text annotations
I complete agree with the comment #3. Now there is no evidence there is
missing something in the PDF file. Any warning would be helpful here.
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Comment #11 on issue 62625 by ole.koec...@gmail.com: Text annotations
I noticed the same. simple the annotations are not shown.
So please give us an update!
Thank you in advanced
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Comment #12 on issue 62625 by joshua.w...@mail.huji.ac.il: Text annotations
Please fix this: I'm using a chromebook, so no place to run to when chrome
doesn't function.
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Comment #13 on issue 62625 by jmason...@gmail.com: Text annotations missing
If the pdf viewer was able to CREATE annotations, it would also do a better
job of saving them.
Looking at MacOS's Preview app as an example of non-Adobe software that
creates and renders annotations seamlessly.
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Comment #14 on issue 62625 by wayne.br...@gmail.com: Text annotations
We better start with just getting the team to DISPLAY them....been 3 years
with this bug!
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Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Comment #17 on issue 62625 by ray...@chromium.org: Text annotations missing
in builtin PDF viewer
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=62625
(No comment was entered for this change.)
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Comment #18 on issue 62625 by john.gal...@york.ac.uk: Text annotations
seems to be about par for the course for Google
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Comment #23 on issue 62625 by waynesch...@gmail.com: Text annotations
Just got burnt by this. I'm heavily invested in Chrome on Ubuntu and using
Chrome OS but had a major professional misunderstanding because there was a
bunch of data inside a PDF that I didn't realise was hidden
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Comment #24 on issue 62625 by mixsy...@gmail.com: Text annotations missing
Annotations are a fairly important parts of PDFs as they represent actual
information – information that the creator of the document will expect the
viewer to be able to see that could be crucial to the document's meaning.
If Chrome is going to include a PDF viewer then it should either a) show
annotations OR b) warn the user that they are present but that they can't
be displayed.