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| FooBar.pdf | |
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| p. 4 | highlight | yellow | |
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor | |
| incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis | |
| nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. | |
| Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu | |
| fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in | |
| culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. | |
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| p. 5 | underline | red | |
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor | |
| incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis | |
| nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. | |
| Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu | |
| fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in | |
| culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. | |
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| p. 6 | highlight | green | |
| Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor | |
| incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis | |
| nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. | |
| Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu | |
| fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in | |
| culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum. | |
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Good thought, completely forgot about that. Quotes are problematic, I think, because they could very well occur in the highlighted text as well. How about something like this:
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p. 6 | highlight | green
Lorem ipsum d ... est laborum.
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This should read Lora, not Lorem.
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Yes, that would be a great format to use.
Would that scheme also cover note-only (no highlight) annotations placed on a page? Probably:
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p. 6 | note | yellow
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This is a random yellow sticker.
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(Whether the --------- would be actually needed here, is debatable. It would be consistent with the scheme, at least.)
I'd be all for an export formatter along these lines. It appears to be flexible, parseable, and readable at the same time.
I think the dashes wouldn't be needed for note-only annotations, but it just occurred to me that notes would also have to include the icon somehow (in 1.5, notes can have different icons, like "questionmark", "comment", "star", and so forth).
Something like p. 6 | note(comment) | yellow could work. I might drop the p. though, because I'd like the format to be language-independent (in German, it would have to be S. otherwise).
I think I'm going to start experimenting based on this, I need to submit a bugfix update pretty soon anyway because the Dropbox login dialog cannot be cancelled right now...
(I agree that p. or similar is redundant.)
All the best with the hacking. I definitely look forward to have PDF Highlighter do my reviewing for me. ;-) Many thanks for your quick and thoughtful responses.
This format would definitely work for me (including the modifications you discussed for notes etc). Keeping it language independent is a good idea.
My use case is very similar to @Teggy's — i.e., I use Highlighter a lot to review academic papers and theses.
@omz Thank you very much for adding this feature!
That looks great, already! Definitely easily parseable, yet human-readable.
One thing: How would you represent a note that has been attached to a highlight? In quotes, maybe?
Use case: in reviewing academic papers, you highlight/underline/strike-through a particular sentence in red (to indicate a flaw in the reasoning, say) and then attach a note that contains details of the flaw or suggest a remedy. Highlights and notes together could be automagically transformed into a peer review document for the paper. Would turn PDF Highlighter into a killer-app for academics.