On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Graham Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader >>> >>> with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the >>> lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but >>> works >>> with Wine on Linux. Foxit has a very bad interface. Sadly annotations >>> support in poppler is unfinished. >>> >> >> I agree with this option - is there a good one out which could be >> used? I know that Acrobat Reade can be used if pdf commenting is >> allowed, which can apparently only be enabled through AcrobatWrite. If >> there would be an alternative way of enabling the commenting in the >> document for AcrobatReader, that would be, in most cases, a usable >> solution >> > > Using PDF as a sharing format seems a good idea as this will be something > most people will be familiar with. > > I have had no success in getting people to collaborate using anything other > than Word or PDFs (With the exception of the company that I am a Director > in, where we now use Lyx for reports where we collaborate internally, but > have to fall back to Word for external collaborations) > > This open source project is meant to enable commenting in PDFs (its Windows > only and needs Net 2.0) but may provide the tools for the clever Lyx > programmers to do this for Lyx > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/
But I could not find any files to be downloaded from there... > > I have searched and searched for a tool, other than Adobe Acrobat > Professional, to enable commenting on PDFs and this was all I could come up > with. That is my experience as well. > > It could then maybe be possible to develop using PDF as the Lyx > collaborative format using PDF compare/merge tools (which already exist, I > think) before converting back to Lyx. I that might be the most flexible and system independent approach, and quite easy to use. > > For commenting on PDFs at the moment I use http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html > as it runs on Linux, Macs and Windows, but its a commercial program. > > Graham > > > -- > Graham M Smith > [email protected] > > > > > -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Faculty of Science Natural Sciences Building Private Bag X1 University of Stellenbosch Matieland 7602 South Africa
