Needing Advice Re: Ported Vista Applications for XP Pro or Home

[jmohr]

I have a company that serves clients who use XP Pro or Home much of
the time. These users require the ability to markup PDF documents.
However, only XP Tablet Edition, Vista, etc. have the nessesary tools
to accomplish this - namely Windows Journal and Journal Note Writer
(the virtual printer). I have not yet discovered a download which will
equip these XP user with these applications.

However, I am also aware of a workaround that makes use of "ported"
versions of the following Vista apps: Windows Journal, Sticky Note,
Clipping Tool, Journal Note Writer, etc. I could use this workaround,
but I am unsure about whether or not Microsoft will deem it an
infrigment of the their EULA. These programs would allow these XP
users to markup their documents.

Only, now I ask a couple of questions here: Does anyone know if this
would be permissable (in light of the EULA)? Or, perhaps, know of a
place (link) that I could go to find out or get permission?

Alternatively, if anyone knows of an download that could install
Journal Note Writer on a regular XP, this could really help too.

Thank you in advance for any advice that can help with these
questions.

John

[Rainald Taesler]

jmohr wrote:
> I have a company that serves clients who use XP Pro or Home much of
> the time. These users require the ability to markup PDF documents.
> However, only XP Tablet Edition, Vista, etc. have the nessesary tools
> to accomplish this - namely Windows Journal and Journal Note Writer
> (the virtual printer). I have not yet discovered a download which will
> equip these XP user with these applications.

How and where shall the comments/annotations be made?
On TabletPCs or in standard PCs??

If TabletPCs the TabletPC version of XP or Vista/Win7 have to be
installed.
On "normal" PCs your idea can not work.

> However, I am also aware of a workaround that makes use of "ported"
> versions of the following Vista apps: Windows Journal, Sticky Note,
> Clipping Tool, Journal Note Writer, etc. I could use this workaround,
> but I am unsure about whether or not Microsoft will deem it an
> infrigment of the their EULA. These programs would allow these XP
> users to markup their documents.

IMHO the problem lies not in copyright.
It's a *technical* problem.

> Only, now I ask a couple of questions here: Does anyone know if this
> would be permissable (in light of the EULA)? Or, perhaps, know of a
> place (link) that I could go to find out or get permission?
>
> Alternatively, if anyone knows of an download that could install
> Journal Note Writer on a regular XP, this could really help too.

As said, the applications you have in mind require a TabletPC.

Apart from Adobe Acrobat (which offers fine features for annotating) for
commenting PDFs you may use the PDFAnnotator[1] a really great
instrument. It works great with TabletPCs and normal PCs. I for one
won't miss it.

Rainald
[1] http://www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/

[jmohr]

> Apart from Adobe Acrobat (which offers fine features for annotating) for
> commenting PDFs you may use the PDFAnnotator[1] a really great
> instrument. It works great with TabletPCs and normal PCs. I for one
> won't miss it.
>
> Rainald
> [1]http://www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/

Thank you Rainald. You are onto something with the PDFAnnotator tool
you mentioned. I did a quick search for other free pdf markup tools
and came up with:

http://download.cnet.com/Informatik-PDF-Markup/3000-10743_4-10801483.html

and

http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer

Both of these applications are free and I am going to test them out.
This would solve my problem in having to work with a number of
applications to edit pdfs - thus, accomplishing the same task, but
with fewer steps.

Regards.

John

[Rainald Taesler]

jmohr wrote:
>> Apart from Adobe Acrobat (which offers fine features for annotating)
>> for commenting PDFs you may use the PDFAnnotator[1] a really great
>> instrument. It works great with TabletPCs and normal PCs. I for one
>> won't miss it.
>>
>> Rainald
>> [1]http://www.ograhl.com/en/pdfannotator/
>
> Thank you Rainald. You are onto something with the PDFAnnotator tool
> you mentioned.

Just test it. There is a fully functional 30-day-trial.
And for what it offers the price IMO is really OK.

I did a quick search for other free pdf markup tools
> and came up with:
>
>
http://download.cnet.com/Informatik-PDF-Markup/3000-10743_4-10801483.html
>
> and
>
> http://www.docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer
>
> Both of these applications are free and I am going to test them out.

Thanks for the references. I'll check them out.

Rainald

[jmohr]

I'm really liking the PDF-XChange Viewer. It's amazing what you get
for free with this application - a really well thought out tool.

John