still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> 
>To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> 
>Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 12:33:52 PM 
>Subject: Re: still looking for decent PDF annotation tool 
> 
>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 


Are you sure that's not the full version of Adobe Acrobat Pro, a proprietary and costly program which allows for creation and editing of pdfs. Reader is a freely distributable version that is essentially read only (unless you have been shipped forms). 


Paul 

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