Stephen Harris wrote: > 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?
Well, that's the old problem. If the author has Adobe Acrobat (not the reader), he can edit your comments and place his own comments at any place of the document. If he only owns the Adobe Reader, he can only view your comments. Now since version 7, the user might even place commments in the PDF (or edit given comments, for that matter) with the Reader, given that the owner of the PDF has permitted that. The crux is that you currently can only give this permission with Adobe Acrobat 7 Professional. The feature is too new to be intergrated in free tools like pdftk. But, as mentioned before in this thread, it is likely that pdftk can do it eventually, even that you can do it directly with pdflatex. Until then, my solution is kind of one way. At least, you (the author of the document, the user of pdflatex), do not need to own Adobe Acrobat to place comments into the pdf. Your partner might have Acrobat or not. If he does, everything is fine. If not, he's indeed forced on answers like "wrt first comment on page 4 I have to say that ..."- Does this clear things? Jürgen P.S. the attached document illustrates the comments that have been inserted via \pdfremark. You'll see that they are just simple annotations.
pdfannot.pdf
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