On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Kapil Hari Paranjape <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > On Sun, 04 Oct 2009, Mohan Sundaram wrote: >> The kind of annotations I'm talking of are typewriter inserts, >> rectangles, oval, circles, lines, arrows, comments, link boxes etc. > > I don't know about all these things so my suggestion may be a bit > off. I _have_ done PDF markup in two ways: > > 1. Write text "on top of" the PDF file. One can do this with flpsed > which is short for "fltk PostScript Editor". > > 2. Fill up PDF forms by extracting the FDF data. One can do this > with pdftk.
In most of these s/w, PDF needs to be converted as PS/ background images and then edited. E.g GIMP brings them in as images. This is a big issue when we have multi-page documents. If these were annotation elements, then we can turn their visibility on and off, skip from one to another while reviewing feedback given as annotations etc. Filling up forms can be met by ftpsed or pdftk etc. as we do not need extensive annotation capability. Comments and notes are the one used most in reviewing. Arrows, box markers, highlights and link embedding are use less but are important nevertheless. As far as I've read, Okular does not have these features. It, however, has the capability to read/render different formats. This makes it an interesting platform for review/ annotation across multiple formats. I did not know of Xournal and it does seem to explicitly support PDF annotations. Need to check that out. I had not dwelled much on PDFEdit earlier as it was described as a library. Seeing it now, I see a GUI thingy. Need to explore this too. Given all this, I still think it is a worthwhile project for some one to take up on Okular. Mohan Sundaram _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
