On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:52:29AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 02:22:20PM +0000, michael wrote: > > > Yes, one of my requirements (portability) meant that I could see the > > (annotated) PDF on different machines/architectures *without additional > > files/software* ie the output is saved as PDF which is readable by all > > PDF viewers... (I would add that it should be searchable (by word) too > > which would seem to exclude graphical editors such as GIMP) > > Then you are using the wrong file format. This is not what PDF is. PDF > is a portable document format, for distributing basically unmodified and > unmodifialbe files. There are ways around that as have been discussed, > but there is not one cross-platform application to do it since it is > non-standard for the format.
>From what I can find, annotations are in fact a part of the ISO 32000, a very recently approved standard based on Adobe's 1.7 PDF reference document. -- Ken Irving, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
