I need to annotate a PDF document with Okular in the following way: highlight text, then add a comment for the highlight.
I’m used to PDF XChange Editor where I can use the Highlight-Tool, then double-click the highlight and type a comment for that highlight. I think it’s the same with Acrobat Reader.
However, with Okular I did not find an intuitive way of doing it so far:
I can highlight or comment, or I could go into the “Annotations” side bar and look for the highlight in the annotations tree. There, I can right-click on a highlight, choose “Open Pop-up Note” and edit the note.
However, this is a painfully slow process and not feasible for multiple annotations.
After doing this with a highlight, the description in the Annotation side panel changes from “Highlight” to “Highlight with Comment”, so clearly Okular distinguishes between the two. However, I could not find a way of creating “Highlight with Comment” type annotations directly.
How is this supposed to be done with Okular? Is it possible at all?
Btw, I looked at the documentation, which says the following about the highlighting tool:
[…] It is possible to define the Type (Highlight, Squiggle, Underline or Strike out), Color, and Opacity for the highlighter. Just right-click on the highlighted text and select the Properties menu item.
However, right-clicking on the highlighted text does nothing when I do it. Maybe that’s the problem? I’m using Okular Version 22.04.1.
If it is not possible with Okular, is there another program with which I can achieve this on Linux (Fedora 36 KDE)?
And if there’s a similar question on SU, please direct me to it. I found none that actually match. This wasn’t it, this seems beyond the scope of my question, and site-specific searches like this one and this one didn’t produce anything helpful either.
