On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Stephen Harris wrote:
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> From: "Juergen Spitzmueller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <lyx-docs@lists.lyx.org>
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:12 AM
> Subject: Re: Annotating documents
>
>
> > Stephen Harris wrote:
> >
> >> Does the pdf annotation work both ways so that
> >> the author can respond in the same doc as in a conversation?
> >> I don't think it works both ways?
> >
> ... snip
>
> I've been looking at flpsed which features:
> http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/#flpsed
>
> * Add arbitrary text to existing PostScript documents.
> * Reedit text, that has been added with flpsed.
> * The overall structure of the PostScript document is not modified.
> flpsed only adds the additional text.
> * Batch processing (no X11 required) to modify tagged text lines that
> have been entered interactively with flpsed before. This is very useful
> for repeatedly filling in forms.
> * Text lines can be imported from other flpsed-modified documents.
> * Import and export PDF. Hence it can be used as a PDF editor as well *
>
> SH: My idea or perhaps I should say, candidate for the wishlist, is to
> make flpsed optionally available as a LyX download during installation.
> flpsed requires gs like LyX. Then flps could be created as a viewer field
> reading the output of the justified LyX postscript export of a LyX file.
May I add to Stephen's wishlist?
Can this be incorporated in lyx (as a plugin or whatever) in such a way
that the math editor become available to the annotations?
I don't know if it is even feasible but it would be an extremely useful
feature for all of us who work with equations.
>
> flpsed installs easily under Linux and OSX already. In your situation with
> Windows users, Win XP flps.exe is less than 250k g/win zipped and could
> be emailed as an attachment as a standalone exe requiring no registry, etc.
> The recipient would need gs installed. And there is a windows version of
> xpdf and pdftops which could probably be harnessed to provide pdf *
> functionaliy (as in the orignal flpsed) if more than ps commenting is
> needed.
>
> I think this adds versatility to LyX since to require that your
> collaboratorsinstall all of Lyx (Miktex) is a more demanding of resources.
> It took me ten minutes to download and install gs and gsview, and copy
> flps.exe from a floppy and another minute to add gs to the Path statement.
> I think flpsed provides an interactive solution and further enables a LyX
> presentation.
>
> So I made a demo for you too. It shows the same file so that quality of the
> X11(flpsed) versus Win32(flps) display can be compared. Rendering in
> Win takes about 8 seconds and X11 only 2 seconds. The original file was
> marked up colored enhancement of flpsed, which is not ported yet. I think
> flps or flpsed works well for a few people team writing a paper or a thesis.
>
> Christian suggested moving this topic to the LyX-user list and I hope
> nobody minds that I have included the Lyx-user list in the discussion.
>
> Best regards,
> Stephen (digest)
>
>
>
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