@schlawar Thanks for the hint. My editing requirements are completely fulfilled by #qpdfview and I don't need another fancy PDF-editor right now. In addition I use pdfarranger.
The editor does not recognize the highlighting done by #qpdfview and doesn't print it either. #evince does at least show the highlighted text but does print just the first highlighted text correctly. I mark the relevant texts with a red rectangle now. This works but that could probably be done with another tool as well.

#qpdfview is a good tool to annotate and highlight text in PDF files. However, neither qpdfview nor the Gnome Document Viewer (#evince) or the standard Document Viewer on #linuxmint is able to print all but the first highlighted text correctly. The second and all subsequent highligthed text show just a box in the highlight colour and not the text. How to print the PDF with annotations (highlight) on Linux / #linuxmint ?

@kzimmermann
The above thread contains info on simple #PDFViewers for linux. Thanks for asking, Klaus!

Hashtags: #mupdf #okular #qpdfview #xreader #PDFViewer #zathura #koreader #eInk

when I open #eps files in #inkscape or #gimp, embedded raster graphics are converted to ugly #jpeg full of compression artifacts.
there are no artifacts when I open the same file with a pdf-viewer like #xreader or #qpdfview.
creating eps files works well with inkscape&gimp.

can anybody explain or has an idea? :breadthink:

What do you use on #FreeBSD to highlight text in #PDF files?

I really like the way it works on #Preview on #macOS: hit a shortcut for highlight, select text, and done: selected text is now highlighted.

#Okular is not bad but I would like to find something more lightweight. Also, I have to click more to get to the highlight tool whenever I need it.

OTOH, in #qpdfview I am stuck with rectangular selection (I'd like text selection instead).

I wonder what #OpenBSD & #Linux folks use...