11-03-2023, 03:26 AM
Oskar,
It has to do with how MobileSheets stores information for pages. The annotations are not stored in the PDF itself - they are stored in the MobileSheets database, and they are tied to the page number that MobileSheets assigns. For example, if you assign a page order like "1,1,1,1", and you modify the annotations on the third page, MobileSheets saves the annotation information for page 3 (it's actually page 2 with 0-based indexing, but you can ignore that, as it's just how things work with indexing in some programming languages). This ensures that even though you have repeated page 1 four times, the annotations only show up on the third instance of that page. If the annotations were saved in the PDF itself, this would not be possible, as the same annotations would show up on every instance of page 1.
So now lets say you modify the page order to this, "1,1". Well now you've removed page 3 where the annotations were assigned. What should MobileSheets do in this case? Should it delete them so there isn't all of this leftover information? Should it save them? Well what if you change the page order to "1,1,2"? Now the third page is back but it's a different PDF page, so having the annotations on that page wouldn't make any sense. That is why MobileSheets clears out the information for pages that are removed from the page order - it will cause conflicts if the page order changes to something different, and it just causes bloat in the database if there is no reason to track that information anymore.
Mike
It has to do with how MobileSheets stores information for pages. The annotations are not stored in the PDF itself - they are stored in the MobileSheets database, and they are tied to the page number that MobileSheets assigns. For example, if you assign a page order like "1,1,1,1", and you modify the annotations on the third page, MobileSheets saves the annotation information for page 3 (it's actually page 2 with 0-based indexing, but you can ignore that, as it's just how things work with indexing in some programming languages). This ensures that even though you have repeated page 1 four times, the annotations only show up on the third instance of that page. If the annotations were saved in the PDF itself, this would not be possible, as the same annotations would show up on every instance of page 1.
So now lets say you modify the page order to this, "1,1". Well now you've removed page 3 where the annotations were assigned. What should MobileSheets do in this case? Should it delete them so there isn't all of this leftover information? Should it save them? Well what if you change the page order to "1,1,2"? Now the third page is back but it's a different PDF page, so having the annotations on that page wouldn't make any sense. That is why MobileSheets clears out the information for pages that are removed from the page order - it will cause conflicts if the page order changes to something different, and it just causes bloat in the database if there is no reason to track that information anymore.
Mike