Have any of the devs, used this in Wine, on Linux: http://www.tracker-software.com/forum3/ ... 8fac09884d
It's called PDFXCView and is faster on a 400MHz Celeron, in Wine, than all the native Linux PDF apps - this is not an exaggeration!
Unfortunately I don't use this software much because it lacks some critical features for students actually swotting for exams; which is why i'm here.
I was hoping that the devs could implement something for Linux quite quickly. It does underlining and arrow boxes and all the usual stuff but..

This is my feature request thread to them:
http://www.tracker-software.com/forum3/ ... 991#p71991

Here's the cut and paste suitably altered for Okular-devs:
1. If you are studying on a Desktop, you need to be able to highlight stuff for later revision. Generally revision is in 2-3-4 passes but since this isn't a book it's harder to visually identify junk from important bits. What I do is: highlight in green, brown, blue all the general stuff for visual identification and important bits are in yellow, orange (again for visual identification).
It's a massive pain to manually switch colour styles every time!!

2. I need to be able to jump to important bits (yellow, orange) sequentially during revision without clicking(shortcut key) which is distracting (I read loudly ) so if i get stuck i just need to raise my head to verify vs moving the mouse and scrolling.

4. It would be nice if I could extract the important bits of text (underlined stuff) If this software has to be actually used for reading, memorizing and studying stuff..

5. I really like the way I can add clarifications and notes(for difficult words) using the box tools - it's very elegant and visible right there on the page vs being buried up someones.. but resizing the boxes is a bit difficult and you generally need to do this because of cut/paste from the wiki, and then squeezing it into page margins or page header the little arrows don't always come up.. but overall it works quite nicely so this could wait.

6. ****IMPORTANT*** can one insert text right into the program as a arrow-type box straight from firefox? What I do is.. if i'm reading a page and I need to lookup a word.. i go to the wiki and select the text and Cc Cv then clicky at the word, then position the b0x, then click in box and Cv .. i run this in Linux and it works beautifully (thanks for Linux support which is awesome).. but you have to switch desktops and my rendering is slow.. can i therefore just shoot the text from FF into PDFXCV and then drag the box where-ever.. or better still shoot multiple chunks off text and then do the ordering.

7. After doing all this, one really needs a separate Notes program (PDF-Editor) which borks on Linux wine! I've never tried it but if i could export my comments and important bits - i could create a final set of notes.
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An example of what I'm trying to do:
"Abstract: Broadly speaking, an asset is any possession that has value in an exchange.
Assets can be classified as tangible or intangible. A tangible asset is one whose value
depends on particular physical properties--examples are buildings, land, and machin-
ery. Assets, by contrast, represent legal claims to some future benefit. Their value bears
no relation to the form, physical or otherwise, in which these claims are recorded.
Financial assets, also referred to as financial instruments, are intangible assets. For fi-
nancial assets, the typical benefit or value is a claim to future cash. Financial markets are
classified as cash/spot markets and derivatives markets. Financial markets play a key
role in the financial system of all economies. In most economies financial instruments
are created and subsequently traded in some type of financial market."

All that crud should reduce to:

asset : value in an exchange
|->tangible (value depends on particular physical properties buildings, land
|_intagible (legal claims to some future benefit no relation to the form in which these claims are recorded
Financial assets financial instruments are intangible assets, value is a claim to future cash, created - traded in some type of financial market.
Financial markets: classified as cash/spot market
derivatives markets

So that entire para is a small chunk of notes - right now I underline each chunk i want - then i should be able to export chunks into PDFEditor and arrange them along with chunks from the wiki.
Both have to happen or you wind up with repeat info, repeat underlines

Microsoft Notes but i'm on Linux working with Python so.. I've tried half a dozen apps (Zotero, Scrapbook) major pain in the rump.. I should be able to just drag and align each chunk like in a Image Editor (Photoshop, GIMP etc) and edit chunks by single clicking with a shortcut to change between "hand tool" and "edit chunk" mode.
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Regarding:
1. I have enclosed an image of my desktop (cstylep.jpg) - I shrunk the "Comments Style Palette" - even so it obscures part of my page. Also, if i cycle windows on that virtual desktop (3) the CSP will also cycle instead of staying with PDFXCV (it'll go behind the PDFXCV window.

3. In that image you'll note the arrow boxes and the green highlighter used extensively.. now lets say am verbally narrating that stuff without looking at those pages except now and then, and now I want to jump to my important bits. I need to traverse all the boxed bits one by one, or all the yellow bits one by one (boxen.jpg). It's not going to be identifiable by date, or author but by color or boxes or underlines.. so how do i do that with a short cut key.. I could scroll the comment list and hunt around which would be a major pain to actually using this software to study for an exam.

6. ref that image.. if i'm in the browser and PDFXCV is open at pg:31, i'd like to shoot text with little boxes right into pg:31 (think named pipe. PDFCV reading from the pipe and inserting blobs of text within a rectangle/triangle/whatever (currently selected tool). The FF plugin just writes the selected text in the browser to the pipe. Once I'm done, I do Alt-F3 to switch to PDFXCV and arrange all the blobs in that page. For 2,3,4,x fragments of text being inserted per rectangle maybe the default should be to insert into a single rectangle and every time you shortcut key in the browser PDFXCV gets a special msg and creates a new rectangle-box.
(I get extension jpg, png not allowed)
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