[pdftex] pdfannot

[Victor Ivrii]

On 11/9/05, Heiko Oberdiek <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de> wrote:
> 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.

Thanks!

>
> > 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, ...

Does not seem to work: checked with pdflatex 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 and
older -1.21a
PDF file has neither icon nor note.

Using /AP (key) kills icon but not a note.

Also where one can find the list of /pdfannot specifications?
               Best
                                  Victor

>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>
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Victor Ivrii, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto