weirdNox / org-noter

Emacs document annotator, using Org-mode
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Non-destructive PDF File Edits #118

Open ghost opened 4 years ago

ghost commented 4 years ago

Short version

Ensure the original and annotated pdfs are both available, without user manual intervention.

Long version

Many of us use the org-noter complementing bibtex-completion, org-ref and org-roam and other such packages. In all such cases, the end goal being the taking notes on research papers, books, articles along with annotations on the attached pdf files.

It would be nice if the said pdf files are annotated in such a manner it is non-destructive. Though the annotated pdf files are useful to the noter, many times it becomes necessary to view/share the original pdf.

It would be useful to either

  1. have org-noter make a copy of the pdf, in the same or different relative path for annotations
  2. or have org-noter organically apply and remove the annotations quickly through a command, and store such annotations as part of the org file.

The second option would be a nice feature addition.