Mark area on PDF file

Question

I received a mail with a PDF attachment. I need to pass the 20 pages long PDF to a group of people.

This group of people should focus on a part on page 3. I would like to mark this part with a red square, to make it easy for the people to find the important information.

How can I do this?

I use the default Ubuntu LTS (14.04).

Update: I don't want to annotate text like in other questions. I want to draw a colored rectangle.

My use case is a bit different. I don't want to annotate with text, I want to draw a rectangle. But the result is the same: There is no software for ubuntu which helps. Sad. — guettli, Sep 24 '15 at 15:55
You can highlight using okular, last I checked. I think it's added more graphical annotation options since. Sad that you didn't even try. — muru, Sep 24 '15 at 16:02
I just tried qpdfview from the above answers link, for highlighting, and it works very well. — meuh, Sep 24 '15 at 16:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 24 '15 at 19:02

The program okular can do it. But you need to use "save as" to write the annotations to a new pdf.

Quoting the FAQ: https://okular.kde.org/faq.php#addedannotationsinpdf

Why the newly added annotations are not in my PDF document?

By default, Okular saves annotations in the local data directory for each user. Since KDE 4.9, it's optionally possible to store them directly in a PDF file by choosing "File -> Save As...", so they can be seen in other PDF viewers.

I don't see how okular can add a rectangle to a PDF. – bomben Oct 08 '20 at 15:23 — bomben, Oct 08 '20 at 15:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 25 '15 at 04:24

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The xournal application allows you to add draw lines (straight and free-hand).

You can also add text and highlighter parts of your PDF.

You install it by calling sudo apt-get install xournal

answered Sep 25 '15 at 04:24

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