still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

Titus titus at arizona.edu
Fri Jan 21 19:27:16 UTC 2011


In essence, yes.  PDF is an open format.  So, it is quite
possible to create a tool that edits PDF directly.  But I
do not know of any.  (Doesn't mean they don't exist.)  I
use tools that are comfortable with PostScript: TeX, LaTeX,
xifg, even a package called 'pstricks', which (when it works
on Ubuntu) allows you to *really* mark up a TeX/LaTex
document with PostScript scribbles.


Titus sends



>    so you're saying that programs that legitimately edit PDF files must
> first convert back to postscript, then do the changes on the
> postscript, then translate back to PDF?
>
> rday
>




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