still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[Doug]

On 01/21/2011 12:33 PM, 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
Adobe reader is a free download for Linux--it's probably already in your
package manager repo.  So it's not FOSS, so what?  Ask your colleague
how she does it.

--doug

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