11-05-2023, 02:12 AM
Hi Mike,
following the discussions about embedding annotations to PDF-files I suggest to add an option
"Automatically embed annotations to PDF on file exit"
for people who prefer storing annotations inside PDFs or want to share lots of annotated documents with others via USB stick or email.
Option 1: disabled (default): Annotations are stored in the MS database only, like MS does today. Nothing changes here.
Option 2: always embed: The already existing function "Embed Annotations" is executed every time when you exit a file, so annotations are transferred from MS-db to PDF-file.
Option 3: ask user: Ask when closing whether to embed or not.
I assume that the programming effort is not so high since the function basically already exists. MS-annotations which can't be transferred to PDF-annotations remain in the MS database.
Reason:
Today there seems to be no practical way in MS to generate lots of PDF files with embedded annotations a keep them up to date (and synch):
Exporting files generates copies with hard embedded (ineditable) graphics. The same with printing.
Manually embedding with the existing command is a real pain for 50 or 100 songs cause you to not forget to use this functions with every single change in every single file.
Also there's no filter to find out which songs have new annotations and which have annotations already in PDF.
following the discussions about embedding annotations to PDF-files I suggest to add an option
"Automatically embed annotations to PDF on file exit"
for people who prefer storing annotations inside PDFs or want to share lots of annotated documents with others via USB stick or email.
Option 1: disabled (default): Annotations are stored in the MS database only, like MS does today. Nothing changes here.
Option 2: always embed: The already existing function "Embed Annotations" is executed every time when you exit a file, so annotations are transferred from MS-db to PDF-file.
Option 3: ask user: Ask when closing whether to embed or not.
I assume that the programming effort is not so high since the function basically already exists. MS-annotations which can't be transferred to PDF-annotations remain in the MS database.
Reason:
Today there seems to be no practical way in MS to generate lots of PDF files with embedded annotations a keep them up to date (and synch):
Exporting files generates copies with hard embedded (ineditable) graphics. The same with printing.
Manually embedding with the existing command is a real pain for 50 or 100 songs cause you to not forget to use this functions with every single change in every single file.
Also there's no filter to find out which songs have new annotations and which have annotations already in PDF.