still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Fri Jan 21 17:33:52 UTC 2011


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.

  so, out of curiosity, how does adobe reader work?  a colleague tells
me she has the commercial adobe reader on her mac, and she can
annotate PDFs just fine.  so what is adobe reader doing to that file?

rday




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