[XeTeX] Commenting

[John Was]

Hi

I added the yellow comment using Acrobat 7 Standard.  The brown comment was added with the much cheaper PDF Converter, but will I think show up in any normal (free or otherwise) PDF reader (but not Sumatra, I notice - unless there is an option there that I haven't investigated).

I doubt if your version of (La)TeX is deliberately prohibiting the addition of comments in the PDFs that it creates - if it is, you can always move over to another one that doesn't (e.g. XeTeX's).  It's more likely that you are using a popular version of Acrobat that doesn't come with all the options enabled (but you can easily try that out by attempting to add comments to a non-TeX-produced PDF).

Best


John


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Yaniv Hollander 
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  Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 8:37 AM
  Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Commenting


  Your first example is exactly what I mean. The thing is that using Acrobat reader I cannot add these yellow comments as you have added. Nor did I managed to add my own comments to the document you sent. What version of Acrobat are you using? Do you have Acrobat writer, or any other professional version, or you are using the regular freeware version?


  Thanks, Yaniv


  On Oct 31, 2007, at 10:19 AM, John Was wrote:


    I don't think I understand the problem.  I attach a PDF page comment2.pdf to which I have just added (1) a comment created in Adobe Acrobat and (2) a comment created in PDF Converter.  The original PDF file was created in XeTeX directly as always happens (i.e. there was no intervention with e.g. Adobe Distiller to create the PDF).

    If you need to add comments to a TeX file as you are going along, it's easy enough in plain TeX to create an insert category that does this (see the file query.PDF attached), but I don't know about that sort of thing in LaTeX.

    Best


    John

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Yaniv Hollander 
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      Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 7:55 AM
      Subject: JunkEmail: Re: [XeTeX] Commenting


      Howdy,


      When you open a pdf file in Acrobat, you can see at the properties of the document whether is has commenting permissions. Files created using Latex are not allowed to be commented. If they were, Acrobat would have enabled an additional tool which can be used in order to add annotations to the pdf file. This is usually a very useful option for reviewing articles. My question is how can I allow the commenting option while creating a pdf file using Latex. Is there any package that can be used?






      On Oct 31, 2007, at 9:45 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:


        Le 31 oct. 07 à 07:37, Yaniv Hollander a écrit :


          I couldn't find anything helpful in these packages. Do you have any  
          other ideas?


          On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote:


            Am 29.10.2007 um 08:42 schrieb Yaniv Hollander:


              How can I create a pdf file with Latex that will enable the
              commenting tool in acrobat reader?


            If this exists, then in a package by Heiko Oberdiek or Scott
            Pakin ... vpe?


        What do you mean by enabling the commenting tool? Does it have to be  
        enabled?


        Martin Schröder's answer:


          Le 29 oct. 07 à 11:03, Martin Schröder a écrit :


            You have to use software from Adobe.
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_LiveCycle_Reader_Extensions


        seems to indicate that, if something needs to be done, it's on the  
        Adobe Reader side, not the XeLaTeX side.


        Also, which version of Adobe Reader are you using? IIRC the ability to  
        add comments has only been added in the latest versions.


        Bruno Voisin
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