still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Tony Pursell wrote:

> I think the whole problem of PDF files is that they are designed to
> be immutable objects - so any form of annotation that changes the
> PDF itself should be impossible.  For someone to send you a PDF for
> annotation is completely wrong and misses the point of having PDFs
> in the first place, so they should not object to having your
> annotations and edits sent back to them in some other format.
>
> So any method of annotation is going to be a bit of a botch.  Here
> is mine:
>
> Open the PDF in GIMP.  Use the text tool (and other tools, maybe) to
> make annotations. Print back to a PDF (I seem to get this option as
> one of my 'printers' so I may have installed something to do it).

  i think this is the most informative response i've read, and it
reinforces what i finally started to note.  i think the simplest
solution is to tell my contact to simply send me content in doc
format instead of PDF.  i have no interest in letting my ideological
preferences get in the way of my work.

rday

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