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Text selection lag
I wanted to link this issue from the previous maintainer's page because as far as I can tell no solution was reached. I am personally still dealing with lag when selecting text and I suspect others might be as well:
https://github.com/politza/pdf-tools/issues/235#issue-186257910 #
Is this likely to be an enhancement on the horizon?
Once I clean up some low-hanging work, I plan to focus on improving pdf-tools annotations support. This bug may be tangentially picked up / addressed at that time. My plan is to do this in July. Thanks for opening an issue here as it's easier for me to track it this way.
Hello. I wanted to add my frustration with this issue. I really want pdf-tools to be my daily pdf-viewing driver for reading pdfs but this is proving to be very difficult because I rely on highlights a lot. Thanks!
+1 to fix selection lag issue.
One workaround, before this issue is fixed, could be supporting markup types that require just two clicks to select a region bounded by two points (such as drawing a square or a line, which is overlaid on the image itself) rather than relying on text-selection.
I haven't got down to investigating the detail of how/whether this can be done and try it out for myself; but I think, until this text-selection problem is fixed, it would be more efficient.
Marking this issue as closed.
Thanks to the stellar work by @hrdl-github in #73, we have now changed the default unit of selection from glyph to word. This speeds up selection significantly. Please install the latest version of pdf-tools and try it out (wait about 6 hours from the time of this comment to ensure that MELPA gets updated).
Look at the documentation of pdf-view-selection-style for more information.
Re: Adding support for more markup styles, I'd like to continue tracking it in the issue @sati-bodhi has created for it, which is #179 . I've been meaning to get around to improving annot support, but I cannot find the time for it. PRs would be great!