[XeTeX] How to make PDF which is allowable to add comments

Jonathan Kew jonathan_kew at sil.org
Thu May 29 17:42:45 CEST 2008


On 29 May 2008, at 4:28 pm, Cyril Niklaus wrote:

>
> On 29 mai 08, at 23:57, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
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>> I don't know the details, but this is a fairly common question
>> (search online for more info). AFAIK, no non-Adobe tools can
>> currently create commentable PDFs.
>
> Well, no, I'm glad to tell you that is not the case.
> I did a pdf with XeLaTeX and using Skim <http://skim- 
> app.sourceforge.net/
>> was perfectly able to comment it.

I think that's a different thing: you're adding PDF "annotations",  
not enabling Reader's "comment" feature. Quite a few tools can do  
this. Depending what you need, it may be a perfectly good alternative.

JK



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