[ILUG] [Q] editorial comments in a big PDF file?

[Brian Foster]

 hi!

  I'm looking for suggestions here ....

  I anticipate reviewing a large manual (300+ pages?!),
 sent to me as a PDF.  normally, what I do with smaller
 documents is print them out, mark them up with a red
 pen, and then discuss my markups with the author.

  with such a large document, the printout is a problem.

  so what I am wondering is if there is some way of
 marking up the PDF document itself?   what I have done
 in the past in vaguely similar situations is convert
 the document to ASCII text, add comments with a text
 editor, and then send the marked-up ASCII back to the
 author.  in this case, this may not be a good idea,
 both due to the size of the manual, and also because
 it contains many(?) diagrams/drawings which would be
 lost in the translation to ASCII.

  I know PDF has some sort of a comment ability (I see
 menu items about it in `acrobat'), but have no idea
 how to make such a comment.  or if it is possible to
 scribble (draw) on a diagram, or make a diagram.

  another approach I have used in the past is to markup
 the document's source (esp. if it is LaTeX or troff),
 but that is definitely not an option this time.  ;-\ 

  any ideas?  suggestions?

  my marking-up would be on Linux (SUSE 9.1), albeit
 the author would deal with the marked-up document
 either on Windross or an _ancient_ Debian system
 (where “ancient‟ means it hasn't been updated in
 c.5 years?!).  the marked-up document does not have
 to be one file, nor ASCII nor PDF, but I suspect
 the choices/possible formats are fairly restricted?

cheers!
	-blf-
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