On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur <r...@linux-delhi.org> > wrote: >> > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> >> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments >> >> (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the >> >> default gnome viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does >> >> not show the text. For the time being I am using PDFEdit to >> >> manually navigate the tree and extract the comments but it is >> >> *very* inefficient and time consuming. Evince has the ability to >> >> read/edit comments in its roadmap but I need a solution now. >> > >> > See if kword will show you the comments. Not exactly a PDF reader, >> > though. >> >> I like to stick to Gnome so no KWord. I did try openoffice though >> with ghastly results. > > Actually you can install KWord on any machine that has X. KWord != KDE.
While that's true, KWord would require me to install KDE libraries which I don't want to do (unless I am sure that will solve the problem). > > BTW, OpenOffice reads PDF? I didn't know that! > Well it doesn't. That's what I meant by ghastly results.. Haven't tried the extension that Sankarshan mentions. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
