Commenting PDFs
Rainer Goellner
Hopefully this isn't a FAQ. Anyway:
The latest versions of the Adobe Reader make it possible
to comment PDFs. AFAIK that's based on a feature new to
PDF version 1.6. It's disabled for documents that don't
know about commenting by default.
Is it possible to turn PDF commenting on from within the
LaTeX source document? Or is there a simple tool that
does the job? All I found can only handle the older
features, like printing.
Thanks in advance,
Rainer
Josef Kleber
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Rainer Goellner schrieb:
| Hello out there,
|
| Hopefully this isn't a FAQ. Anyway:
| The latest versions of the Adobe Reader make it possible
| to comment PDFs. AFAIK that's based on a feature new to
| PDF version 1.6. It's disabled for documents that don't
| know about commenting by default.
|
| Is it possible to turn PDF commenting on from within the
| LaTeX source document?
No
| Or is there a simple tool that
| does the job? All I found can only handle the older
| features, like printing.
|
Well, search for ARenable. In some discussions it was called illeagal.
I'm no lawyer, so decide yourself.
You can also use a recent version of Foxit Reader for commenting, but it
will add a commercial on an edited page unless you buy the full version.
Josef
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Rainer Goellner
> Rainer Goellner schrieb:
> | Is it possible to turn PDF commenting on from within the
> | LaTeX source document?
>
> No
>
> | Or is there a simple tool that
> | does the job? All I found can only handle the older
> | features, like printing.
> |
>
> Well, search for ARenable. In some discussions it was called illeagal.
> I'm no lawyer, so decide yourself.
So it's an IP issue - I gotta pay for a licence to scribble :(
Too bad. Thanks, anyway,
Rainer
Brian Elmegaard
> Well, search for ARenable. In some discussions it was called illeagal.
What about PDF XChange viewer?
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Josef Kleber
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Brian Elmegaard schrieb:
| Josef Kleber <josef....@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
|
|> Well, search for ARenable. In some discussions it was called illeagal.
|
| What about PDF XChange viewer?
Hi Brian,
didn't know that one, but indeed it does allow commenting and editing
(not real one, but adding text) with the free version. Unfortunately, it
seems not to support the Adobe Javascript Reference needed for such cool
things like cooltooltips.sty (it crashes when clicking such a link).
Beside that, it's a superb piece of software! Thank you for the tip.
Josef
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William F. Adams
No, you need to pay for a licence to make use of a feature of a
proprietary software program which has other features which are
provided freely.
Two free programs which are able to annotate .pdfs include:
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2008/05/03/how-to-annotate-pdf-files-in-linux-using-xournal/
http://www.dklevine.com/general/software/tc1000/jarnal-back.htm
I believe multivalent affords some capabilities along these lines as
well:
http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
William
Rainer Goellner
> On May 8, 6:14 pm, Rainer Goellner <rgoell...@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Josef Kleber wrote:
>>> Well, search for ARenable. In some discussions it was called illeagal.
>>> I'm no lawyer, so decide yourself.
>> So it's an IP issue - I gotta pay for a licence to scribble :(
>
> No, you need to pay for a licence to make use of a feature of a
> proprietary software program which has other features which are
> provided freely.
>
format itself you have to pay for. But that's some
other discussion...
> [Xournal, Jarnal, Multivalen]
All of them use their own mechanisms to annotate pdfs.
What I need is a pdf someone else can annotate, and
I can't expect the other person to use something else
than Adobe Reader.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions,
Rainer
Rainer Goellner
I like it, but it's not what I was looking for.
You can comment pdfs, Acrobat Reader recognizes
the comments, that's all fine. But even then it's
not possible to add comments with Acrobat Reader.
I think Adobe wants me to give up.
Thanks to all of you helpful souls,
Rainer
Ista Zahn
to at least create an editable field in the margin of the document using
the hyperref package. See example below.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand{\mnote}[1]{%
\leavevmode\marginpar{\tiny\raggedright#1\par \begin{Form}
\TextField[width=1in,height=8in,color=red,multiline=true,charsize=8pt,default=Click
here to type comments]{\thepage}
\end{Form}}}
\title{How to enable comments on pdf's}
\begin{document}
\mnote
To create an editable field in the margin of your document, define the
following command:
\begin{verbatim}
\newcommand{\mnote}[1]{%
\leavevmode\marginpar{\tiny\raggedright#1\par \begin{Form}
\TextField[width=1in,height=8in,color=red,multiline=true,charsize=8pt,default=Click
here to type comments]{\thepage}
\end{Form}}}
\end{verbatim}
in the preamble of your document. Then issue the command
\begin{verbatim}\mnote \end{verbatim} at the beginning of every page.
Note that I tried to automate this using the \texttt{everyshi} package,
but without success. Maybe someone who knows \LaTeX{} better than I do
can help.
\end{document}
Josef Kleber
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Ista Zahn schrieb:
| Rainer Goellner wrote:
|> Brian Elmegaard wrote:
|>> Josef Kleber <josef....@nurfuerspam.de> writes:
|>> What about PDF XChange viewer?
|>
|> I like it, but it's not what I was looking for.
|> You can comment pdfs, Acrobat Reader recognizes
|> the comments, that's all fine. But even then it's
|> not possible to add comments with Acrobat Reader.
|> I think Adobe wants me to give up.
|>
|> Thanks to all of you helpful souls,
|> Rainer
| This is not going to do exactly what you want it to, but it is possible
| to at least create an editable field in the margin of the document using
| the hyperref package. See example below.
|
[Code]
Another possible way is to use pdftex's \pdfannot like in pdfnotiz.sty
(dvdcoll.cls). So you can set the pdf annotations in LaTeX:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{textcomp}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{pdfnotiz}% from dvdcoll
\begin{document}
I like it, but it's not what I was looking for.
You can comment pdfs, Acrobat Reader recognizes
the comments, that's all fine. But even then it's
not possible \pdfmarginnote[Comment]{Insert your comment here!}
to add comments with Acrobat Reader.
I think Adobe wants me to give up.
Thanks to all of you helpful souls,
~ Rainer
\end{document}
Josef
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