Thanks for the detailed info Andreas.
I didn't find the Adobe Reader reference to needing Adobe Server products.
The page I found just said it was controlled by the producer of the document.
And the Adobe site says these 'can' be added by LiveCycle - but didn't state that they HAD to be.
I agree this seems to be Adobe giving with one hand but keeping a firm grip on the purse strings with the other.
As a follow-up question - would it be possible for FOP to add comments to a document (with another fo:extension)?
(As my documents are generated from XML I could add comments to the XML and regenerate.)
I remember doing this with pdfmarks in postscript a few years ago (so I think it was in PDf 1.3)
- but had a horrible job of getting the alignment and sizing right in a landscape / rotated page.
Ghostscript and Adobe Distiller had a fundamental disagreement about rotated media vs. rotated pages.
Mike
Andreas L. Delmelle wrote:
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I'm also thinking... Currently FOP 0.20.5 produces PDF conforming
to the 1.3 Specification (Acrobat 4.0) --maybe that version still
lacks the necessary commands to make it 'commentable' by Reader 7.0
(= PDF version 1.6) (? long shot)
Not so long, it seems. Yep! The Adobe Reader 7.0 Help mentions 'additional usage rights' which need to be added by Adobe server products --of course ;-)
AFAICT from the PDF Reference v1.6, these 'additional usage rights' only show up in the context of the 'UR' transform method --never mind the technical details, this method is closely linked to an entry in the PDF document catalog --named 'Perms'-- which was added with PDF v1.5.
Seems like it can be done, but it's going to take some ingenuity, and some people with a lot of time on their hands... (as that would mean a rather thorough revision of our most current PDF lib, IIC)
And then, there's always the question if Adobe's going to like this functionality becoming freely available... (?) It does seem to be one of those features that should persuade one to buy 'Acrobat 7.0 or one of their server products'
Greetz,
Andreas
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