still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[Tony Pursell]

On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 12:33 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 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
> 

I assume that is the paid for version from Adobe (called Adobe Acrobat -
the free version is Adobe Acrobat Reader) that is also a PDF creation &
edit tool. It costs £532.80 here in the UK and is only available for
Windows and Mac.

Tony