[Scribus] a bit off-topic: Tool to add notes to PDFs??

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Mon Jan 14 22:30:28 CET 2008


Philipp Wagner wrote:
> Craig Ringer schrieb:
>   
>> flaco wrote:
>>     
>>> Hej Guys!
>>>
>>> Does anyone out there know a easy-to-use cross-platform tool that allows to
>>> put annotations into an existing PDF-document?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> I think annotation support was added to KPdf for KDE 4. That might be a 
>> pretty big thing to get installed just for PDF annotations, though.
>>     
>
> They added annotation support (btw, okular, the new kpdf, is really
> fast!), but these annotations are not PDF annotations, but saved to a
> separate XML file (.kde4/share/apps/okular/docdata).
>
> Well, there seems to be no solution (which was the result of my previous
> search, too), perhaps I'll find some time to look into okular and podofo
> and get them to work together ... Should not be impossible at least.
>   
Another thing to consider is to conceptually tear apart what you need to 
do from what you (currently) want to do, to see if some other approach 
may make almost as much sense and perhaps be easier anyway.

Greg



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