Re: 22/27: gropdf(1): Document `pdfnote` macro.

"G. Branden Robinson" <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:41:42 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.printing.groff.general
Message-ID	<20260118234142.ub3y7h2w5qlcjgrr@illithid>

Hi Deri,

At 2026-01-18T22:57:49+0000, Deri via groff-commit wrote:
> > commit 9377ac54c5af5c5eb6f5a12dbcbcc101f6df4087
> > Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
> > AuthorDate: Thu Jan 15 20:05:50 2026 -0600
> > 
> >     gropdf(1): Document `pdfnote` macro.
> > 
> >     I had pretty bad luck with reader support for annotations.
> > 
> >     * okular(1) and xpdf(1) show the icon but hovering and clicking
> >       do nothing.
> >     * evince(1) shows the icon.  Clicking on it pops open a window
> >       showing the title, but not the text (even though there's
> >       copious space for it).
> >     * Firefox's built-in PDF viewer seems to offer full support as
> >       described here.
> 
> These are my findings:-
> 
> Viewer       Version       Icon   Hover   Click   Dbl‐Click 
> ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── 
> okular     23.04.3           y     y[3]      n         y 
> evince     44.2              y       y       y         ‐ 
> xpdf       4.05              n       ‐       ‐         ‐ 
> atril      1.26.1            y       y     y[4]        ‐ 
> mupdf‐gl   1.11              y       n       n         ‐ 
> qpdfview   0.50              y       y       y         ‐ 
> zathura    0.5.5             y       n       n         ‐ 
> acrobat    windows           y       y       y         ‐ 
> firefox    140.6.0esr        y       y       y         ‐ 
> chromium   136.0.7103.113    y       y       n         ‐ 
> 
> ─────────── 
>  [1] Okular must not be in text selection mode. 
>  [2] Right click, Annotation Properties

Thanks, Deri!  Good stuff!  I'm considering making a record-my-desktop
video with voice over to summarize the new stuff in groff 1.24.0 (for
upload to social media[1]), and this chart is an excellent resource to
have available when talking about the new `pdfnote` macro that gropdf
supports.

Regards,
Branden

[1] I need to ask Jim Hall for some tips!

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