[pdftex] pdfannot

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 07:41:53PM -0500, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 11/5/05, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 09:10:44AM -0500, Victor Ivrii wrote:
> 
> > > I was long ago interested in. I think that  Notes could be a nice
> > > alternative to footnotes
> >
> > They aren't in general, because many PDF viewers are not able
> > to display them (xpdf, gs, ...).
> 
> I am aware of this. In fact I suspect that none but AR/Acrobat can
> handle this. Still AR exists for most of the platforms and in certain
> circumstances it could be beneficial
> 
> 
> It looks loke in
> 
> \pdfannot
> height 4cm
> width 4cm
> depth 4cm
> {
> /Subtype /Text
> /Open true
> /T (My note)
> /C [1 0 0]
> /Contents %
> (This note is produced by Latex)
> }
> 
> while ``height'' changes the position of the ``note'' icon,  ``width''
> and ``depth'' have no effect. (Tested with
> pdflatex-3.141592-1.30.4-2.2)
> 
> 1) Can anyone confirm this?

Yes, see one of my mails in the current "hover" thread.
My observation is that AR takes the left upper corner
and put the text note symbol there. The other values of
the rectangle do not have an effect.

> 2) While /C changes note color, I could not find a way to change an
> icon. I failed
> to find info in few manuals or looking at attachfile.sty source

/AP key, ...

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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