BUG: 387639
BUG: 388458
I'd consider it only as partial fix. Poppler forces us to use 24x24 pts, else we'd never get a match. Poppler [[ https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/tree/poppler/Annot.cc?h=poppler-0.62.0#n2469 | silently ignores ]] what applications set in Poppler::Annotation::setBoundary. This should IMHO get fixed at Poppler side, or at least it should be clarified why forcing 24x24 pts was necessary. The [[ http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/PDF32000_2008.pdf | PDF standard ]] just says "readers shall provide predefined icon appearances for standard names: Comment, Key, Note, Help, NewParagraph, Paragraph, Insert" [12.5.6.4]. It doesn't say anything about a predefined size. It says, the /Rect entry defines position and size [12.5.2, 12.5.3].
Some further references to get an idea why 24x24 enforcement was done in Poppler:
- [[ https://cgit.freedesktop.org/poppler/poppler/commit/poppler/Annot.cc?id=7684c325929493ad9de01a891de0aef197e176dd | commit of 24 x 24 enforcement ]]
- [[ https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23108 | introduction of appearance streams for default icons ]]
- [[ https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2012-October/009592.html | related thread on poppler mailing list ]]