Michael Beckmann wrote:
There is pdfedit (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit/). I think it
has an annotation function but I havent tried it. Its still a beta and
crashes every now and then but I think it looks pretty promising!
Oisin Feeley schrieb:
A quick FYI:
A while ago there was a thread on this list discussing the possibility
of adding annotations to a PDF [1] using Free software, mainly as a
way in which an editor can add comments on a manuscript. It seemed
that there were three options: 1) purchasing Adobe Acrobat Standard;
2) waiting for the poppler library and associated tools (KDE's okular
and GNOME's evince) to add this functionality; 3) using a Windows
program.
It seems that there's now another possibility which is a PostScript
annotator "flpsed" [2] which has the ability to convert to/from PDF.
This was mentioned in the comments to a recent Linux Journal article
on working with PDFs in GNU/Linux [3].
1.
http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg54320.html
2. http://www.ecademix.com/JohannesHofmann/flpsed.html
3. http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000235
AFAIK, the following is accurate and has not recently changed. Adobe
Reader will only allow commenting if the file permissions are set
accordingly *and* it sees a valid digital signature (which only Acrobat
Pro can provide). This does not apply to other readers, only to AR.
So, as I understand it, a PDF file with commenting permission set by a
non-Adobe product still cannot be commented inside Acrobat Reader.
There is one possible exception to this. I think I recall someone
coming up with a program that essentially takes the digital signature
from a document signed by Acrobat Pro and splices it into your PDF,
allowing you to set permissions without having Acrobat Pro.
/Paul
