still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[Dotan Cohen]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:37, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
>
>  i do a lot of proofreading/editing for a publisher and i typically
> get Word-format content that i can easily annotate in oowriter.  my
> changes are either in-place edits or side notes added with Ctl-Alt-N,
> while displaying and recording all the changes.
>
>  occasionally, though, the only available format for a document is
> PDF, and i'd really like to be able to make the same changes to a PDF
> doc.  is there an open-source solution for this?  if not, i'm prepared
> to get something commercial.
>

I recently had a chance to annotate a PDF in Windows with the Foxit
(non-FOSS) PDF reader. The annotations show in Kubuntu in Okular and
Adobe Reader. You might want to look at the Foxit Linux version to see
if it has similar capabilities.


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