[ILUG] Linux PDF

[Liam McDermott]

acrobat reader looks promising until i read the following:
"Extended commenting capability
Conveniently add comments to documents in e-mail-based reviews when
this capability is enabled in Adobe Reader by Adobe Acrobat® 7.0
Professional software."

so adobe professional needs to be installed to enable commenting


On Tue, 1 Feb 2005 11:53:09 +0000, Barry O'Donovan
<mail at barryodonovan.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 February 2005 08:36, Aidan Delaney wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 23:58 +0000, Liam McDermott wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a linux pdf reader which can do text
> > > highlighting and comments.
> > >
> > > I basically want a linux based replacement for Adobe Acrobat
> > > Professional.
> >
> > AFAIK there are none with those capabilities.  The most advanced that
> > I'm aware of is
> > http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/
> > which is scheduled for release with Gnome 2.10 or around that time.
> 
> The PDF viewer aspect of evince is actually xpdf V3. It seems evince
> will sport many similar features to vastly upgraded PDF view for KDE,
> KPDF. It's currently part of KDE 3.4 beta and, from using everyday,
> it's quite nice. It is also based on xpdf V3 and includes items such as
> text selection, presentation mode, watch file, full screen, table of
> contents,  zoom, search, thumbnails and many optimisations. Some
> screenshots:
> 
> http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/screenshots/kpdf_composting_incremental_overlayalpha.png
> http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/screenshots/kpdf_zoom_rect_transparent.png
> http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/screenshots/kpdf_singlepage_contents.png
> http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/screenshots/kpdf_continous_search.png
> http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/screenshots/kpdf_2pages_fitPage.png
> http://robotics.dei.unipd.it/~koral/KDE/screenshots/kpdf_2p_continous_popup.png
> 
> I came across the Adobe site recently and I noticed that they are
> producing a new Acrobat Reader for Linux. It is currently in beta but I
> _think_ you need to register for testing. It seems to have a commenting
> capability:
> 
> http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrwhatsnew.html
> 
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