For clarity, now that I've searched through my records and found the marked-up document I was referring to in an earlier post.
On 11/06/07, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon 11 Jun 2007 21:41:13 NZST +1200, Roy Britten wrote: > Don't know how, but I know that it did. Not a full editor, of course, > but I *could* overtype as requested in the original post. That's what > the plugins do. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it. Acroread allows to fill in PDF forms, meaning you can type your text into the text field provided, but that's as far as it goes.
I recalled performing some collaborative editing/mark-up of a PDF using Adobe Reader. (This is a separate issue from form-filling). What I didn't recall, but should have checked before I posted, was that Reader only allows the adding of "comments" in a similar fashion to some word processors. You end up with what looks like a document covered in post-it notes. It's ugly and doesn't support collaboration or in-depth discussion of the document very well. I don't recommend it. You need Adobe Reader 7 with the acroread-plugins package available through your favourite package manager.
> Wouldn't do it on any document I could create, though, until the > document had been run through some expensive Adobe software or other. Yes, acrobat, it creates the input fields. Which is why it doesn't work for you: output from ghostscript or anything2ps can't create such PDFs. Not surprisingly when the format is half proprietory as I understand, Adobe must satisfy their shareholders somehow. The plugin is probably the same as acroread, but it can be embedded into a web browser (like flash and whatnot).
No. See above. Apologies for confusion caused, Roy.
