get pdf with annotations

[aryx]

When I 'get' a pdf I've annotated I get instead a zip file with 4 files in it (a .content, .lines, .pdf, and .pagedata). How do I get instead a pdf I can read with the line annotations in.

[dio4ev]

Try this tool:
https://github.com/jmptable/rm-dl-annotated

[peerdavid]

I created a fork of rmapi that supports rmapi geta "Quick sheets" which reads notebooks or pdf files with annotations. You can also load notebooks as pdf or as svg files. It works with Version 1.6 only because the file format of the .lines file changed in this version. You can find this rmapi implementation here: https://github.com/peerdavid/rmapi

-> Its still a beta version (i.e. no templates are supported, pdf is not everytime correct etc.) but possible at a later point we can merge it back...

[juruen]

@peerdavid would you like to prepare a PR to integrate your changes upstream?

[peerdavid]

@juruen I opened the PR #34. Please check if you really want those additional dependencies (listed in README.md ). I.e. I create a SVG file for the annotations using python3 and afterwards a bash script is called that merges it with (1) the background or (2) with the pdf file using other tools that must be installed locally. For that reason I also decided to create a fork.

[lobre]

Can we consider this issue as resolved?

[lobre]

Resolved with #38.

[lobre]

As it is only a first version, we can leave this issue open I think because so far the annotations are downloaded separately from the PDF.

[torwag]

Hi I came across this using rmapi today.
First, I really like rmapi, it is getting a work-horse for me, being on Linux and having no official app.
I believe that most people expect that the downloaded version of a PDF contains the annotation and are a bit puzzled to see a zip file with plenty of unknown files for them.
Secondly, I exported the documents (forms) which I had signed on my rM, via rmapi and everything looked ok using zathura or evince on my host machine. I send the PDFs to a co-worker, and she said, the signature is missing. A bit surprised I double-checked, on my linux machine, I had PDF with signature, she used Adobe Acrobat on a Windows machine and could not see the signature. I went to convert the PDFs into PNG and back into PDF, as this usually makes sure that all and everything is purely a static image and nothing can get lost. However, using imagemagick convert which utilities ghostscript to render a pdf into a png, the signature was missing.
I ended up open the PDF in libreoffice (draw) and save it again as PDF, which seems to work.

Just as a feedback that the embedding of annotation seems not to be 100% compatible with all pdf readers.

[ddvk]

@torwag please provide a sample pdf

[torwag]

further description was done in #114 solved #115 merged upstream and distributed with release 0.0.12

[ddvk]

we can close this one for now, the export is not optimal, but enough for most people i think