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Okular TypeWriter annomation with explicit Chinese words makes the file size super huge & Revocation doesn't restore file size

Q1: Is there any solution to avoid such huge size change? As also discussed in this Linux forum, when I use okular to add explicit text annomations, the file size will become huge, this seems to be ...
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Okular: Highlight with comment

I need to annotate a PDF document with Okular in the following way: highlight text, then add a comment for the highlight. I'm used to PDF XChange Editor where I can use the Highlight-Tool, then double-...
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How can I select an annotation in Okular by clicking on the particular annotation on the corresponding page of a pdf file?

How can I select an Okular annotation by clicking on the particular annotation on the corresponding page of the pdf file? I can do this by clicking on the annotations toolbar but that does not let me ...
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How to change the text highlighting color in Okular?

How can you quickly switch between text highlighting colors for the "Review" tools in the Okular PDF-reader? For example when browsing through a PDF file and wanting to color different topics ...
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Customise Okular to add my own annotation "stamps"

There's an excellent post on customising Okular to modify highlight tool properties at Customise Okular to modify highlight tool properties It's helpful but it deals with modifying an existing tool ...
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Change border color of Okular annotations

Inline Note annotations in Okular (the default PDF reader for the KDE desktop) only allow me to modify the highlight color by default, but I want to modify the border color of those annotations too. ...
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Modify Okular highlight to automatically copy highlighted text into comment

Despite what old SE questions state, the PDF software Okular can now write annotations directly to the PDF. This makes it very useful in conjunction with Docear for annotating academic literature. ...
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How to recover annotations made by okular to a PDF file after being moved from another user's homedir?

I made lots of annotations to some PDF files using okular (KDE's PDF viewer). Then, I decided to move them to another user's homedir, but found out the annotations weren't available anymore. With a ...
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Where does Okular store the PDF annotations?

I am using Okular in Ubuntu 11.04 as it has support to annotations and is faster to do a quick find across large documents. The annotations are not stored in the document, but are stored as metadata ...
Praveen Sripati's user avatar