Android app bug: underline in PDF not syncing

danbud · June 9, 2024

I'm using the Android beta on both a Boox device and a OnePlus device. I did multiple highlights and underlines on a PDF on the Boox device. The highlights synced to the OnePlus device, but the underlines are not showing up. They seem to not have synced.

dstillman · June 9, 2024

I'm not sure what you mean by that. The Android app doesn't yet support underlining. That's only available in the beta of the desktop app.

danbud · June 18, 2024

I didn't realize the android app didn't support underlining. It was giving me the option to underline within the app, so I assumed it was supported.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u14302936/ivtdg76pnlhpbzfnak2z.jpg

dstillman · June 18, 2024

Oh, sorry, that's a bug that those appear — they're coming from the PDF library we use. (Strikethrough isn't something we've ever supported anywhere, and I don't think that Underline function will even save anything locally.) We'll look into removing them.

danbud · June 18, 2024

Great, thank you. You're right that the underline won't save. I had a couple long reading sessions, and I was underlining very frequently. I didn't realize it wasn't saving until I re-opened the PDF again the next day and scrolled up to see that none of the underlines had saved.