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I remember reading somewhere that since goal of evince is to act as a document viewer, it won't support highlighting. Am I right ?

are evince dev's going to support highlighting in future. I dont find any thing related to highlighting in the Roadmap.

Since Poppler(backend of evince) now supports highlighting(link1 & link2) it is only a question of whether evince should have that feature or not.

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Use Xournal for highlighting and annotating.

Xournal is a great little tool. When you annotate a PDF (add comments, highlights etc.), you normally can save it into a ".pdf.xoj" file; this file does not contain the PDF (in fact, it is only gzipped XML) and is only used by Xournal to overlay your comments over the original PDF.

If, however, you wish to save the annotations and the original PDF to another PDF, Xournal can export an new PDF file consisting of the original file and your annotations.

That way, you can keep the original PDF without annotations, but you can also make your changes permanent if you wish.

To install xournal, type the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install xournal
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