Keyboard shortcuts for evince annotation?

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I would like to make c a shortcut for inserting a comment and h a shortcut for highlighting. Other keyboard shortcuts could do, e.g., if modifier keys are required. Pressing one of these keys would be equivalent to pressing the annotation icons in the toolbar:

... so that clicking/selecting using the mouse afterward would perform the desired action. This would immensely improve my reading flow! Is there a way to do this?

An added bonus would be a way to map CTRL + Z to deleting the last annotation.

I ended up using Master PDF Editor which does all of this, includes OCR, etc. — Jonas Lindeløv, Apr 16 '18 at 17:17
Actually it has a good free version! Thanks for the suggestion. — a06e, Apr 16 '18 at 19:29

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 07 '19 at 14:44

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The feature was added just one month ago (Aug 10, 2018) to evince.

I guess it will be available in the next evince version 3.31. The shortcuts in the addition are "S" to add text annotation and Ctrl + H to add highlight annotations.

edited Nov 07 '19 at 14:44

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answered Sep 27 '18 at 05:44

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Sorry, I have Evince version 3.28.4 and the Keyboard shortcuts doesn't work for me – avimehenwal May 07 '19 at 19:34
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@AviMehenwal, did you read the answer? It's only available from 3.31 – dmh Jun 19 '19 at 12:12

Keyboard shortcuts for evince annotation?

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