GUI - Graphical User Interface (Tkinter)

[IgorAvilaPereira]

I liked of your project. This project was important for my work. Because this, I developed a GUI with Tkinter.
For run: python main.py
Sorry my english. I am from Brazil. I expect that you like my improvements.
Thanks.
My Setup: Linux Mint 21 and Python 3.10

[0xabu]

Hi there! Thanks for the contribution, but for now I prefer to keep pdfannots as a command-line-only-tool. I notice you are just shelling out to call pdfannots via os.system, so if you wanted to you could easily release this as a separate program (and use pip to install pdfannots via a dependency, for example).

[tgraupne]

Hi @0xabu , hi @IgorAvilaPereira ,

I just wanted to bring to your attention that I started working on an UI for pdfannots:
https://github.com/tgraupne/pdfannots-app

Currently, I am struggling to create a working executable and really integrate pdfannots as a library instead of using the system call. I would really appreciate if you could get in touch and share some of your knowledge.

I think this library is really amazing and I am trying to make it more popular at my local university. Having a complete application which would work ootb on multiple platforms would be just terrific.

Best, Tom

[IgorAvilaPereira]

@tgraupne I am happy by your job.
I also tried to implement a GUI user interface to pdfannots with Tkinter. Here, I just invoke a system call.
https://github.com/IgorAvilaPereira/pdfannots-tkinter-app
This works for me but I agree with you that would be important to the project these improvements.
Thank you for your mention.

[another4til7]

I'm not a python programmer. BUT, I read and markup a lot of PDFs. I would love to help with testing and feedback when you've got something that can be tested on either (Ubuntu) Linux or Windows.

[tgraupne]

@tgraupne I am happy by your job.
I also tried to implement a GUI user interface to pdfannots with Tkinter. Here, I just invoke a system call.
https://github.com/IgorAvilaPereira/pdfannots
This works for me but I agree with you that would be important to the project these improvements.
Thank you for your mention.

Actually, this PR and your work with Tkinker inspired me. I played around with Tkinter too for a while. But when I was researching possibilities to implement something which could work cross-platform, I stumbled across flet.dev. A framework based on flutter which is promising to enable easy and quick cross-platform applications.

What would you think about me writing up an issue in my project describing the most pressing issue I have? So we could all take a look and continue our discussion over there.

EDIT:

Here one can find the corresponding issue in the UI project I started:
tgraupne/pdfannots-app#5

I can't emphasise this enough, I would really appreciate help because I am kinda stuck atm. 🙂

[IgorAvilaPereira]

@tgraupne The invitation has expired. Can you send again?

[IgorAvilaPereira]

@tgraupne Today I implemented a function that don't need command line invocation (main_igor) in:

https://github.com/IgorAvilaPereira/pdfannots-tkinter-app/blob/master/pdfannots/cli.py

Thanks