- From: Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2014 00:51:30 -0700
- To: Benjamin Young <bigbluehat@hypothes.is>
- Cc: public-openannotation <public-openannotation@w3.org>
Hi! After talking today with the PDF.js team at the web meeting, I opened this ticket: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/5283 Feel free to add more information, pitch in, or show some support for the idea. Mitar On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Mitar <mmitar@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Benjamin Young <bigbluehat@hypothes.is> wrote: >> From what little I know, the PDF annotation are really just another layer of >> PDF content. They're stored as "Annot" dictionaries on the actual Page. >> Outside of positioning on the page, not much in those objects (from a quick >> read) seem to give one the ability to re-anchor those annotations on another >> representation...sadly. > > The issue I see is that there are two things (if I use Mac OS X > Preview to do them): > - highlights > - annotations > > Highlights are for example drawn by PDF.js even if you don't enable > annotation support. They are also not returned through their > annotations API. So for me it seems that they are stored differently. > Also annotations looks like that have only rectangle locations > defined, while drawn highlights can follow the text nicely. > > So I wonder how those highlights are stored. Once we get them somehow > from PDF.js, we can look into how to convert them to open annotation > standard. But for now I don't see a way how to extract them from > PDF.js. I would love if they would be part of what their annotation > API returns. > > > Mitar > > -- > http://mitar.tnode.com/ > https://twitter.com/mitar_m -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
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