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

Steven Woody narkewoody at gmail.com
Thu May 29 20:27:15 CEST 2008


On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:42 PM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
> On 29 May 2008, at 4:28 pm, Cyril Niklaus wrote:
>
>>
>> On 29 mai 08, at 23:57, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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After reading theire web pages, I found skim is not for Windows ( I am
running in Cygwin ) and AREnable required .NET framework, I don't know
what means `require .NET 2.0 framework', does that mean I need to
install microsoft's big .NET development studio?


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