On 3/6/07, Richard Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Oisin Feeley wrote: > Comments in PDF seem to be something that's only available using the > official Adobe toolchain [snip]. Thanks. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. But it really is silly.
Not from the Adobe's perspective -- they're making plenty of money by monopolising the standard and producing the tools for that. I'm not quite clear as to whether you can use the ordinary Adobe Reader to produce the comments though. The second para from the bottom of this page (which is all about using Adobe Reader with the excellent Free software Scribus) seems to refer to them as "Annotations" and suggests that it may be possible without purchasing yet another closed tool: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?page=toolbox1 But, it looks like there's a Google Summer of Code project proposal to provide annotations to PDF in Evince (one of the popular GNU/Linux PDF programs that uses the underlying Poppler rendering library): http://live.gnome.org/Evince/Annotations So, some nice, talented skilled people (not unlike the LyX developers) are working on trying to make this happen. Hopefully the application for Google SoC gets accepted. OisÃn
