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From: "Juergen Spitzmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jean-Marc Lasgouttes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2005 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: Annotating documents
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
Juergen> With the attached sty file, I can insert such annotations
Juergen> with \pdfremark{Hello, this is a comment!}
Hmm, when would that be useful.
It might be usable if you colloberate with people that do not have LaTeX.
E.g., I'm just editing a conference proceedings where almost all
contributors
submitted word documents (which I have converted to LaTeX then).
Now I send them the typesetted PDF files to proofread an/or give the
imprimatur. If I have comments ("please consider that statement again",
"have
a look: here I have changed something" etc.), I find the PDF annotations
quite useful, because people can view these with Adobe Reader, and they do
not change the actual layout of the text.
I suspect I do not really understand how acrobat annotation support
works.
Actually, it is quite analogous to our nifty yellow LyX notes, which have
their own right beneath change tracking, don't they?
Ideally, the LyX notes could be transformed to pdf annotations if the author
wishes that.
Jürgen
Hello,
This is interesting. Suppose proofing a paper in a somewhat similar
situation were a bit more involved. You say "please consider that
statement again". The author wants to respond, I said that because
of the of a paper published two weeks ago by Yuri Matijasevic as
noted in footnote 11." Now you want to respond, in the same doc,
"Matijasevic's proof has a flaw in it according to Calude."
I mean to give an example in which the discussion is a bit more
protracted. Does the pdf annotation work both ways so that
the author can respond in the same doc as in a conversation?
I don't think it works both ways? You could also probably
autonumber the document and the author could respond to you
by identifying a remark of yours by line number and then sending
you an email with the line number and his return comment. But
that seems sort of clunky to me. Having the author download
and install 200mbs of software to achieve your annotating
capability seems infeasible. Having a small portable app that
can enable communication similar to what can be done with
Reader/Acrobat Pro seems a better approach to me.
But maybe I'm wrong and the pdf annotations you mention
enable extended two-way communication within the document
you have produced with Latex? The only free program that I
know of that can do this is flpsed for Linux... and my research
was throrough and which is why I am double-checking this
point with you.
flpsed for Windows can only do postscript docs at this point
and can't import pdf files yet. But since gs/ghostview can read
pdf files it doesn't seem to be an insurmountable challenge. I
think it is a bit too clunky to comment in ps and then have the
Windows port of xpdf or the pdf toolkit convert the ps file to
pdf. I suppose it's possible to keep the remarks as pdfremark.sty
works. I found pdfremark.sty to be a new and useful idea.
Best regards,
Stephen
