Hi,
Does anyone know of a Linux app that will annotate PDFs in the way one can do 
with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat (i.e., add popup boxes with comments)?

-Jim Haefner

I'm unaware of any such application with a GUI. But you could do this
programatically using a PDF library that supports Linux. You would
obviously need to have some programming experience.

Two libraries that support Linux that spring to mind are PDFlib and
iText.

- Chris.
___________________________________

Chris Dahl - CTO
ARTS PDF Solutions 
chris.dahl@aroundtablesolution.com
http://www.aroundtablesolution.com/
ARTS - A Round Table Solution 

James Haefner <jhaefner@biology.usu.edu> wrote in message news:<3F103534.3060707@biology.usu.edu>...
> Hi,
> Does anyone know of a Linux app that will annotate PDFs in the way one can do 
> with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat (i.e., add popup boxes with comments)?
> 
> -Jim Haefner

I'm unaware of any such application with a GUI. But you could do this
programatically using a PDF library that supports Linux. You would
obviously need to have some programming experience.

Two libraries that support Linux that spring to mind are PDFlib and
iText.

- Chris.
___________________________________

Chris Dahl - CTO
ARTS PDF Solutions 
chris.dahl@aroundtablesolution.com
http://www.aroundtablesolution.com/
ARTS - A Round Table Solution 

James Haefner <jhaefner@biology.usu.edu> wrote in message news:<3F103534.3060707@biology.usu.edu>...
> Hi,
> Does anyone know of a Linux app that will annotate PDFs in the way one can do 
> with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat (i.e., add popup boxes with comments)?
> 
> -Jim Haefner

> Does anyone know of a Linux app that will annotate PDFs in the way one can do 
> with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat (i.e., add popup boxes with comments)?

Patience. Adobe is working on a modern Reader for Linux (they say). That 
would allow commenting ... if the document has Extended Rights...

Max Wyss.

Max Wyss <max@prodok.com> wrote in message news:<max-0E62D6.11432917072003@news.swissonline.ch>...
> > Does anyone know of a Linux app that will annotate PDFs in the way one can do 
> > with recent versions of Adobe Acrobat (i.e., add popup boxes with comments)?
> 
> Patience. Adobe is working on a modern Reader for Linux (they say). That 
> would allow commenting ... if the document has Extended Rights...

Why wait. Pdftex has been able to do this for the last 4 years
at least and has the advantage of being open source. You could 
also do it by editing the PDF file in a text editor :)

Even if you don't fancy learning LaTeX or ConTeXt markup for
_producing_ your docs, you can still use pdflatex to include
a preexisting pdf file page-by-page with the pdfpages 
package.  Then use \pdfannot to put the annotations on 
the pages you want. However, this does have the disadvantage of 
trashing your bookmarks (although there may be a work around 
that I don't know about).