how is _add_text meant to work?

[mil-ad]

I'm trying to use the _add_text script and I'm not quite sure how it's meant to work. I choose _add_text and then I can draw box, followed by typing the text. But when I press enter I only see the box and nothing happens. If I click anywhere the box disappears and I don't have any new annotations.

Am I doing it wrong?

[ahrm]

It is possible that configuration might be different in other operating systems. For example instead of:

new_command _add_text python -m sioyek.add_text "%{sioyek_path}" "%{local_database}" "%{shared_database}" "%{file_path}" "%{selected_rect}" "%{command_text}"

You might have to do something like

new_command _add_text python -m sioyek.add_text '%{sioyek_path}' '%{local_database}' '%{shared_database}' '%{file_path}' '%{selected_rect}' '%{command_text}'

Either way, if you are using the development branch, this command is unnecessary because we have a built-in add_freetext_bookmark command.

[mil-ad]

omg add_freetext_bookmark is great! 🤩

How do I delete them though? Also is there a way to embed them into the pdf instead of the database? The embed_annotations command doesn't seem to do it.

[mil-ad]

also is there a way to change the colour of the text? This is a game changer!

[ahrm]

How do I delete them though?

You can delete them either by pressing delete in the bookmark list (gb list) or by running delete_visible_bookmark command which shows a label next to each visible bookmark and deletes the selected label's bookmark.

Also is there a way to embed them into the pdf instead of the database? The embed_annotations command doesn't seem to do it.

You can export a version of the PDF files with the annotations embedded using the embed_annotations command. doesn't it work for you?

also is there a way to change the colour of the text?

You can change the color using freetext_bookmark_color config. You can set the config at runtime by prefixing it with = in the commands menu. That is, entering =freetext_bookmark_color in the commands menu allows you to set the config.

[mil-ad]

Amazing! Thank you @ahrm!

The only thing I would change is to have a separate command for embedding annotations into the current file (which is why I normally want to do) or maybe even a config to always store annotations to the file instead of the database.