[pdftex] Notes in documents created with pdfLaTeX

[The Thanh Han]

I did some testing with the first 2 test files (let's call
them test-bad.tex and test-ok.tex):

- test-ok.pdf and test-bad.pdf differ only in placement of
  certain objects; the pdf structures are more or less the
  same and seem to be ok.

- if I add a line saying \usepackage[letterpaper]{geometry}
  to test-bad.tex then again the output is ok.

It seems that the prolem is related to paper format or so, 
but this is only my wild guessing. I tried to change the
margins in order to change the note placement not to be that
close to the paper border, but the only thing that helped is
to use letterpaper.

During the test with Acrobat Pro 6.0, the result of printing
test-bad is rather inconsistent; sometime the text doesn't
print but only the note, sometime vice versa. Acrobat reader
doesn't support printing comments.

Perhaps we need more testing to find a pattern of the
problem.

Thanh



On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:14:14AM +0200, Martin Heller wrote:
> Notes in pdf documents created with pdfLaTeX does not print 
> correcty from Acrobat Reader 8.0 and Acrobat Professional 7.0.
> 
> This document
> 
> \documentclass{scrartcl}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{pdfnotiz}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> \begin{document}
> \pdfmarginnote[Note]{This is a note.}
> \lipsum
> \end{document}
> 
> when printed with comments summary (Ctrl+T in Acrobat 
> Reader/Professional) will not print the text (Lorem ipsum...).
> 
> This prints correctly (documentclass changed):
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{pdfnotiz}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> \begin{document}
> \pdfmarginnote[Note]{This is a note.}
> \lipsum
> \end{document}
> 
> If I add a note with Acrobat Professional in this document
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> \begin{document}
> \lipsum
> \end{document}
> 
> The text does not print. I can compile the same document with 
> latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf and add a note with Acrobat Professionel 
> and it prints correctly.
> 
> If I add a note with Acrobat Professional in this document 
> (hyperref added)
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{hyperref}
> \usepackage{lipsum}
> \begin{document}
> \lipsum
> \end{document}
> 
> and compile with pdflatex it prints correctly.
> 
> I am using MikTeX 2.6 with the latest updates installed with the 
> package manager.
> 
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.4 (MiKTeX 2.6) (preloaded 
> format=pdflatex 2008.2.28)  28 MAY 2008 11:07
> entering extended mode 
> 
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