[pdftex] Commenting on PDFs

Victor Ivrii vivrii at gmail.com
Wed Nov 26 12:54:31 CET 2008


On Thu, Nov 8, 2007 at 10:58 AM, James Quirk <jjq at galcit.caltech.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
>
>> Odd that you couldn't find an answer going through the archives, because
>> this question comes up every few months; when I searched on "comments" I
>> got several hits which answered this FAQ.
>>
>> The answer is no, you can't enable commenting with pdftex.
>
> I gave an answer to this a while back on comp.text.tex:
>
>   http://groups.google.com/group/comp.text.tex/msg/5b67b470cb476816
>
> and as an update it has to be said that the approach I used in Perl could
> easily be reimplemented in Lua and run from LuaTeX. However, I do not
> believe it is legal to do so. As an aside, I actually prefer to annotate
> PDF's using a custom markup language, rather than Adobe's gui.
> For details, see:
>
>   http://www.amrita-cfd.org/doc/fold::markup
>
> Moreover, now that I have program folds working in LuaTeX, fold::markup
> will one day be available from Latex i.e. no Amrita needed. I say one day
> as I'm waiting on some LuaTeX internals to sort themselves out. In the
> meantime I'm working on a document that describes how I added
> re-entrant, program-folds to LuaTeX. Progress is much slower than I would
> have hoped, but a draft should be available this side of Christmas
> (sorry Hans, Taco, Victor I got carried away with walkthrough directory
> listings and other novelties, so my original estimate was wildly inaccurate).
>
> James
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I am not sure that the Adobe security is that lax as it used to be and
methink that the newer versions of Asobe Reader detect arenable and
other spoofs.



Also there are other than AR programs which can comment pdf files but
some comments are program specific (so that AR does not see them and
these programs do not see comments made in AR or AA). Also commenting
and enable commenting are different things,


Victor


PS Yes this question returns every few months.
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