Matheus Saito 501a7199e0 Add bulk comment and annotation clearing to editor (#6792)
# Description of Changes
Closes #6695 

This PR adds bulk cleanup actions for comments and annotations in the
PDF editor, while tightening the save and navigation behavior around
annotation edits.

### Comments sidebar

Adds a “Clear all comments” action to the comments sidebar overflow
menu. The action opens a confirmation modal before clearing sidebar
comments and replies.

The implementation distinguishes between standalone comment annotations
and comments attached to existing visual annotations. Standalone
comments and replies are removed from the document, while comments
attached to markup, shapes, ink, or other visual annotations are cleared
from the sidebar without deleting the underlying annotation itself. This
preserves the visible document markup while removing the comment
metadata and persisted comment contents.

The comments sidebar state is also reset after clearing, including draft
comments, reply drafts, edit state, and open confirmation/delete modal
state.

### Annotate tool

Adds a document-level “Clear all annotations” action to the Annotate
tool. The action is exposed through the annotation panel’s overflow menu
and uses a confirmation modal before removing annotations.

The clear operation is routed through the existing annotation API bridge
and delegates to EmbedPDF’s document-level annotation clearing API. The
UI handles unavailable annotation state, successful clears, and
failures.

After annotations are cleared, the editor resets annotation interaction
state, exits placement/selection-specific state, returns to select mode,
and marks the document as having unsaved changes only when annotations
were actually removed. The user can then persist the removal through the
normal Save Changes flow.

### Save and navigation hardening

Improves the viewer save/apply flow used by annotations and manual
redactions.

Save operations are now deduplicated while an apply operation is already
in flight, preventing duplicate exports or duplicate file consumption
when users trigger save/navigation repeatedly.

The global unsaved-changes navigation modal now waits for “Apply &
Leave” to complete successfully before navigating. If saving fails, the
modal keeps the user in place instead of leaving with unsaved edits
still present.

The Annotate panel also prevents “Save Changes” and “Clear all
annotations” from running concurrently.

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## Checklist

### General

- [X] I have read the [Contribution
Guidelines](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md)
- [X] I have read the [Stirling-PDF Developer
Guide](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/DeveloperGuide.md)
(if applicable)
- [ ] I have read the [How to add new languages to
Stirling-PDF](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md)
(if applicable)
- [X] I have performed a self-review of my own code
- [X] My changes generate no new warnings

### Documentation

- [ ] I have updated relevant docs on [Stirling-PDF's doc
repo](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-Tools.github.io/blob/main/docs/)
(if functionality has heavily changed)
- [X] I have read the section [Add New Translation
Tags](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/devGuide/HowToAddNewLanguage.md#add-new-translation-tags)
(for new translation tags only)

### Translations (if applicable)

- [ ] I ran
[`scripts/counter_translation.py`](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/docs/counter_translation.md)

### UI Changes (if applicable)

- [X] Screenshots or videos demonstrating the UI changes are attached
(e.g., as comments or direct attachments in the PR)

Clear all comments : 
<img width="310" height="397" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d1682611-13f8-4f40-aa77-44b37450e56e"
/>

Clear all annotations: 
<img width="284" height="549" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/e4049bc1-f07b-4b36-b08e-ad6d6b86fe62"
/>



### Testing (if applicable)

- [X] I have run `task check` to verify linters, typechecks, and tests
pass
- [X] I have tested my changes locally. Refer to the [Testing
Guide](https://github.com/Stirling-Tools/Stirling-PDF/blob/main/DeveloperGuide.md#7-testing)
for more details.
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