[pdftex] pdfannot

[Diederik van Arkel]

On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Victor Ivrii wrote:

> 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?
>

I use

/Name name

for this. Where name can be one of /Note (the default) /Comment, /Help, 
/Insert,
/Key, /NewParagraph, or /Paragraph. I find this easier to use than an 
AP dictionary.
If you really want to know all the things you can do  then download a 
copy of the
pdf reference from 
<http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html>.
Info about icons, notes, and note locations is in the section on 
Annotations (8.4 in my
copy).

Regards,

Diederik van Arkel