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@lenhard lenhard commented Feb 15, 2017

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This is a follow-up to #1883 which I cannot modify because I have no commit access to that branch.

I tested the features under Windows and it works fine overall. Opening the PDF at the position of the annotation does not work for me, hence I removed the button that provided this functionality. At this time (four month of inactivity in the other PR), the only point is to get the functionality in that actually works.

  • Change in CHANGELOG.md described
  • Manually tested changed features in running JabRef

ayanai1 and others added 30 commits August 29, 2016 14:52
# Conflicts:
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/entryeditor/EntryEditor.java
# Conflicts:
#	CHANGELOG.md
#	src/databaseTest/java/net/sf/jabref/shared/DBMSSynchronizerTest.java
#	src/databaseTest/java/net/sf/jabref/shared/SynchronizationTestSimulator.java
#	src/jmh/java/net/sf/jabref/benchmarks/Benchmarks.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/BibDatabaseContext.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/BasePanel.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/DuplicateResolverDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/JabRefFrame.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/StringDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/actions/BrowseAction.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/bibtexkeypattern/BibtexKeyPatternDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/entryeditor/EntryEditor.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/entryeditor/PdfCommentsTab.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/importer/ImportFileFilter.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/importer/actions/AppendDatabaseAction.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/maintable/MainTable.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/maintable/MainTableColumn.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/mergeentries/MergeFetchedEntryDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/openoffice/StyleSelectDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/preftabs/PreferencesDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/protectedterms/ProtectedTermsDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/shared/OpenSharedDatabaseDialog.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/shared/SharedDatabaseUIManager.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/util/PositionWindow.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/auxparser/AuxParser.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/bibtexkeypattern/BibtexKeyPatternPreferences.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/bibtexkeypattern/BibtexKeyPatternUtil.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/importer/fileformat/BibtexParser.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/importer/fileformat/PdfContentImporter.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/msbib/BibTeXConverter.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/msbib/MSBibDatabase.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/msbib/MSBibEntry.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/pdf/PdfCommentImporter.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/util/io/RegExpFileSearch.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/xmp/XMPSchemaBibtex.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/model/database/BibDatabase.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/model/entry/BibEntry.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/pdfimport/PdfImporter.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/preferences/JabRefPreferences.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/shared/DBMSProcessor.java
#	src/main/java/net/sf/jabref/shared/DBMSSynchronizer.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/BibDatabaseContextTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/gui/importer/actions/ConvertLegacyExplicitGroupsTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/auxparser/AuxParserTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/bibtexkeypattern/BibtexKeyPatternUtilTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/exporter/BibtexDatabaseWriterTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/groups/ExplicitGroupTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/groups/GroupTreeNodeTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/groups/KeywordGroupTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/importer/fileformat/BibtexParserTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/logic/integrity/EntryLinkCheckerTest.java
#	src/test/java/net/sf/jabref/model/database/KeyChangeListenerTest.java
#	src/test/resources/net/sf/jabref/logic/exporter/MsBibExportFormatTest2.xml
import net.sf.jabref.model.entry.BibEntry;
import net.sf.jabref.model.pdf.FileAnnotation;

import org.apache.commons.collections4.map.LRUMap;

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Could we use a class from google guava instead? Because of this LRUMap class, the whole commons collections library has to be included.

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To be done in the future: #2546

@lenhard lenhard merged commit 9614fd8 into master Feb 15, 2017
@lenhard lenhard deleted the show-pdf-comments branch February 15, 2017 16:44
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kafran commented May 13, 2017

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@lenhard is this really hard to implement? #662. It would be really helpful to open the annotation on the PDF location.

JabRef could store the page number/label of the annotation and the user could configure its preferred PDF reader as: exec evince -i $PAGE $FILE_PATH or exec firefox $FILE_PATH#page=$PAGE

This solves the arbitrary combinations of operating systems and pdf readers, no?

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@kafran It is all relative of course ;-)

Storing the page number/ label of the annotation is already done right now, I guess. What makes this a lot of effort is if we want offer built-in configurations for a number of pdf readers and operating system (since we would have to test that). I guess if we just offer the user to execute a command he has to configure himself, it would get easier. We would still get support requests from people asking how things should work for their particular configuration, though.

Anyway, I guess this could be done. I don't see anyone from the current developers volunteering right now (@jabref/developers feel free to disagree), but you are very welcome to go ahead with an implementation and to provide a pull request!

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