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

[Gareth Eason]

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	   Hi,

	You can, of course, do this using the Adobe Acrobat Suite (Distiller et
al.) but that costs money and runs on Windows (and Mac OS?) only.

	If someone has a better, cheaper solution, I would also be interested
in hearing it, please :-)

	Best regards,
	-->Gar



Brian Foster wrote:
|  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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