PDF annotations are broken

Support
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I’m reading a PDF in the Paperpile PDF viewer.

I wanted to place two text labels on the PDF. Surprisingly, this is very buggy.

Here is a video of my experience:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/24d59d26-5597-4101-836b-627650aff9d4

Here are my steps:

  1. Create a label.
  2. Change the font size from 12 to 8.
  3. Copy paste the label.
  4. Change the text of the second label.
  5. Move the second label.
  6. Suddenly, the first label disappears.
  7. Copy paste the second label.
  8. Move it, and start changing the text.
  9. Suddenly, two text labels appear in the same place.
  10. Move the text label, and now it appears there are 3 text labels.
  11. Suddenly, the third text label disappears.

The behavior of the app is very confusing, and it is preventing me from annotating my PDFs. There is certainly a bug in the annotation feature, but it is not clear exactly what is wrong with your code.

It appears that the user interaction is not immediately applied, and there is some delayed update that happens 1-2 seconds after the user interaction. This seems to conflict with what the user is trying to do.

Paperpile web v68 (932d36)
Chrome (MV3) extension v1.5.782 (2491a1)
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Thanks for the detailed report, @slowkow. The team has identified the bug and is working on a fix; it should be included in an update this week. We’ll post here when it is released.

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@slowkow This should be fixed now.

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Can I raise the similar question? annotation pane is pretty buggy … it stops working every once in a while, for no good reason. I’ve annotated a document in part, when I opened it again, the annotation pane and buttons are greyed out … frustrating.