still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[James Tappin]

On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:19:21 +0000
Tony Pursell <ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:

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

There is a PDF importer for OpenOffice that reads a PDF as a series of
images into a drawing document, to which it is then possible to add
drawing elements (e.g. text, boxes...) and then re-export to PDF.

It is also possible (I guess) to use pdfedit -- but my experience of
that is that the UI is so obscure that it's almost impossible to
actually do anything with it!


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