still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 21 18:19:05 UTC 2011


On 01/21/2011 08:42 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Arnaud G wrote:
> 
>> I know it's not free but I do a lot of pdf work and find it
>> excellent. PDF studio from qoppa
>> http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/index.html
> 
>   ok, i'll check into that but at the risk of annoying by way of
> repetition, let me describe clearly what i'm after and others can let
> me know if they have actually *used* something that constitutes a
> solution (you'll see what i mean by that shortly).
> 
>   i proofread a number of sizable word documents from a certain
> publisher and the pattern until now has been to open these docs in
> openoffice (3.2 in my case), go into Edit > Changes, then select both
> "Record" and "Show", for obvious reasons.
> 
>   i then start proofreading and all of my feedback falls into two
> categories:
> 
>   * short, in-place edits, where the fact that a line has been changed
> is visually obvious by a mark (vertical bar) in the margin, and
> 
>   * longer comments added on the right side, using Ctl+Alt+N (insert >
> comment), for which i use the word "annotate"
> 
> and that's it -- i have no need of any other changes to the document
> i'm reviewing.  and when i'm done, i save it back to the original doc
> format, and email it back.
...

PDF Studio.

http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/buy/compare.html





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