[XeTeX] How to produce a notable pdf file by Acrobat Reader?

[SONG Zhiwei]

Thank all repliers!

Actually, I want to produce a notable pdf file for others. You know,
there are litter people using TeX in my affiliation. I expect my
parter can comment something on my pdf document for me just using the
Acrobat Reader. It is a pity that XeTeX can not support this feature
because of the legal issue. I will try to find some free programs to
enable this feature before I send my pdf document to my parter.

Zhiwei

2007/11/27, Andreas Matthias <amat at kabsi.at>:
> William Adams wrote:
>
> > On Nov 27, 2007, at 1:48 AM, SONG Zhiwei wrote:
> >
> >> I can not find any free PDF annotation programs for Linux
>
> Recent versions of Acrobat Reader can comment pdfs. But this
> commenting feature must be enabled within the pdf itself. And
> there are legal issues to implement this in a LaTeX package;
> Adobe has encrypted this feature.
>
> > To be fair, one can read in a .pdf using pdfpages and pdflatex and
> > annotate on top of it using the appropriate commands --- you have to
> > calculate positions by hand, but it's not that bad, and in many ways
> > is more flexible for some sorts of work.
>
> Just a few words on this solution, although this is probably not
> what the original poster is looking for.
>
> You don't really have to `calculate' the position. The grid option
> of eso-pic might help you a lot. Here's an example:
>
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage[grid]{eso-pic}
> \usepackage{pdfpages}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \includepdf[
>   picturecommand*={\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}%
>                    \put(50,130){Foobar}}
>   ]{dummy.pdf}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> Another very nice thing is the cooltooltips package, which creates
> real pdf annotations. Unfortunately the cooltooltips package does
> not have a XeTeX driver, yet. Maybe someone can convince Scott Pakin
> to write one. Here's an example that works with pdflatex:
>
>
> \documentclass[a4paper]{article}
> \usepackage{pdfpages}
> \usepackage{cooltooltips}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \includepdf[
>   picturecommand*={\setlength{\unitlength}{1mm}%
>                    \put(50,130){%
>                      \cooltooltip[0 0 1]
>                      {}{That's cool!}{}{}{\Huge Kick me!}
>                    }}
>   ]{dummy.pdf}
>
> \end{document}
>
>
> Ciao
> Andreas
>
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