Highlight: only one possible color currently

[A-Infor]

As discussed since a year ago, it would be nice to be able to have more than one HighlightColor under Annotations on SumatraPDF-settings.txt.

Why? Because, then, it would be possible to customize keyboard shortcuts in order for different keys to correspond to different highlighter pen colors.

I am sure that I am not the only one that have more than one highlighter pen on my case, being each of a different color, for highlighting on paper.

In my workplace, yellow, red, and green are specially useful. People understand better what the document is about with yellow, and see easily what is correct with green, and what is wrong with red.

Why not have the same choice on SumatraPDF settings file? The other option is to print the PDFs in order to do the highligting, but this is not desirable. Otherwise, why use a PDF reader?

[kjk]

The right solution here would be to have commands that can take (optional) arguments.

Then you could create a key binding e.g.:

[
  Cmd = CmdCreateAnnotHighlight #ff0000
  Key = b
]

[Yasura47]

I tried it. It works except the color part. It uses the same color that in Annotation part not the one in the shortcut. What am i missing?

[ Cmd = CmdCreateAnnotHighlight Key = d Color = #eda55c OpenEdit = false ]

Thank You!

[kjk]

Well, it's not implemented yet, just an idea.

[Yasura47]

Oh, Thank You!

[kjk]

In pre-release 16374 or later (https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease) you can do:

Shortcuts [
    [
        Cmd = CmdCreateAnnotHighlight #00ff00 openedit
        Key = b
    ]
]

This creates shortcut b for creating green highlight See https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Customizing-keyboard-shortcuts

[tomasrei]

In pre-release 16374 or later (https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease) you can do:

Shortcuts [
  [
      Cmd = CmdCreateAnnotHighlight #00ff00 openedit
      Key = b
  ]
]

This creates shortcut b for creating green highlight See https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/docs/Customizing-keyboard-shortcuts

I find that this doesnt work. I have in my settings:

Shortcuts [
    [
        Cmd = CmdCreateAnnotHighlight #00ff00 openedit
        Key = b
    ]
]

The log:

CreateSumatraAcceleratorTable: unknown cmd name 'CmdCreateAnnotHighlight #00ff00 openedit'

I'm using v 3.5.2 (portable edition)

[GitHubRulesOK]

@tomasrei it will not work in 3.5.2 only in 3.6.16374 + currently https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease

[tomasrei]

@tomasrei it will not work in 3.5.2 only in 3.6.16374 + currently https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/prerelease

Thanks! It works now :)