On 6/23/2011 1:25 PM, planas wrote:
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:04 +0200, C wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnabl<[email protected]> wrote:
Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by
Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that
OOo/LO users will have that extra functionality.
What purpose do you want this functionality for?
...
It seems foolish not to so enable them for the Comment and Review
function, considering its ease to do so with no added cost or real
time and effort...
But for what purpose?
Nino
DUH! For any users wanting to add any highlighting and such--a thing
typically done by millions of students and others over the past few decades
on their printed material and books by (usually yellow-colored) magic
markers. That highlighting functionality can also be done now electronically
on PDFs (as it is commonly done on such converted PDFs) and even carried
over to printed hard copy, if users so desire to print them out afterward.
In addition to highlighting, editorial comments and the like by users could
also be added directly to the PDF documents, among other capabilities.
The big hole in that idea is that Adobe Acrobat Professional is a
Windows/MAC-only application that costs $449 US per license. That
leaves out those of us who use Linux... and the team members that
cannot afford that rather high license cost.
It may be a nice-to-have feature, but due to cost and OS restrictions,
it will probably remain a nice-to-have.
C.
Does anyone know what pdf functionality LO exports have? I have never
tested it myself, no interest until now.
If they have the desire functionality then there is no reason to use
Acrobat, just export from LO. Personally I do not highlight books or
e-texts. For e-texts I use formatting to highlight important items for
the reader. If something you can using formating in the original to draw
the readers/users attention to it. If I need to edit a pdf file, I can
use pdf Edit in Linux and I assume there are Windows/Mac equivalents.
I never mentioned that any reader of LO PDFs would need to use Acrobat.
Only one person at LO docs needs to employ Acrobat Professional--a
brain-dead, simple, less-than-a-minute task--to enable any future users
to employ Comment and Review on their PDFs.
It's really that difficult a concept. It imparts useful functionality,
even though you might not ever use it. Millions do... on their printed
documents, including books and memos.
Gary
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