Gary On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:43 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
> 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 > > -- > > Gary Schnabl > Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... > > Technical Editor forum <http://TechnicalEditor.LivernoisYard.com/phpBB3/> > > You are missing the point - I do not need Acrobat to generate a pdf file. You can do it easily in LO. The pdf will open in Reader with no problems. I just did it, accepting the default settings since was not sure what all the settings did. Actually this was the first time I had seen these settings and I suspect they setting for Reader/Acrobat. I would not be surprised it you picked the correct settings you would get the behavior you wanted. -- Jay Lozier [email protected] -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
