[DVIPDFMx] Allowing comments in PDF created ?
William Adams
will.adams at frycomm.com
Tue Jul 28 20:23:08 KST 2009
On Jul 22, 2009, at 4:02 AM, Jerome Duriez wrote:
> Hello, thank you for your answer. That's me that doesn't answer very
> well, but in fact I'm now quite confused about this problem :
>
> The comments I'm speaking about are comments you can add in .pdf
> files with Adobe Standard. Such examples are in attached file. I was
> told by two different people that it was impossible to add these
> comments in the .pdf files I generated. A third one confirmed me
> that it was the default case when you work with Latex "on Linux" (I
> can not be more precise for the moment, sorry...).
>
> What makes me confused is that :
> - I was told that this is linked with security settings you can find
> in somewhere like (in Adobe softwares) : Document -> Protection or
> Security settings -> Comments : allowed or not. But I discovered
> that for the same .pdf, open once with Adobe Reader, or once with
> Adobe Standard, the comments are one time "allowed" and one time
> not...
> - In all cases : I do not have Adobe Standard on my PC but on an
> other one I tried myself for the first time if I can add comments in
> my .pdf. It was completely possible, for the one generated with
> dvipdfmx especially...
>
> So in fact I do not know if I have always to face this problem : I
> asked my supervisor if it is the case for him (he's the first to be
> concerned) but at the moment I do not have the answer.
> I'm very sorry not to be able to be more precise, but maybe you've
> already heard of something like this...
There are several different levels at work here:
- one can make comments in a .pdf as it is being made using pdftex
(and I believe dvipdfmx) --- just a matter of putting a couple of
specials in
- a person w/ Acrobat Standard or Professional can use the internal
commenting tools to add comments / annotations irregardless of the
source of the .pdf
- a person w/ Acrobat Professional can encrypt a .pdf and ``enable
(it) for commenting'' using Adobe Reader (the idea here is to allow a
person who doesn't own Acrobat to make comments)
- further complicating this is the matter of third-party tools which
can make changes to .pdfs which may or may not be done as comments /
annotations.
- similarly, pdftex's ability to place a .pdf allows one to take an
extant .pdf, pull it in and place comments over it --- awkward, but
workable if one can work out where one wants them to go x,y coordinate-
wise
William
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William Adams
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