[wanted]Programme to annotate PDF files

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 888 Location: Germany

Hello there,

a friend of mine just sent me a pdf file I'm supposed to proof read. Is there any linux software in portage that is able to annotate pdf files?
Acroread doesn't have this feature (or I was stupid - hints welcome)
Okular also can't do it.
Evince is not able to.
pdf2oo produces crap.
mupdf is a viewer only.
xournal seems OKish... but meh.

The closest I came to the annotate function is with whyteboard, which doesn't really make annotations but pastes yello "post-its" onto the document. Not what I wanted, but if there is nothing better around I'll go with this.

Any programmes I should try left?
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

a) request the data in a sane format?
b) ugly, but mostly working: open in inkscape, make notes, save. AFAIK only works one page at a time, so needs to be remerged after making changes.

IIRC, okular can do it, but it stores the data in a seperate file, most properly your friend would also need okular to view them...
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Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 888 Location: Germany

My friend offered me a choice of pdf and docx. Docx looks horrible in LibreOffice, so I chose pdf.

xournal does what Inkscape can do, but I don't have to open every page separately and since he needs to get this file back afap I'll stick to that. Thanks anyway.
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Rad · Posted: Sat May 07, 2011 8:32 pm Post subject:

For the record, yes, Okular can annotate quite nicely. Libreoffice has a PDF import extension. And PDFedit may also have worked...

jserink · Veteran Joined: 30 Jan 2004 Posts: 1008

Hi All;

I emerged whyteboard and it worked fine but the pdf it exports is simply a pdf of a bitmap, all objects like text are lost.

pdfedit could place highlights and such on pdfs and export them without losing the objects but, pdfedit is written on qt3 which is grossly obsolete.

Is anyone aware of a linux app in qt4 or gtk that has similar functionality to pdfedit? I have not found one yet.

Else, its my WindowsXP VM and Adobe 7.

Cheers,
John

gene128 · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 13

app-text/flpsed may work for you

ppurka · Advocate Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 3256

baaann · Guru Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 558 Location: uk

I have not used it and it appears to be lower level than probably required, but

http://esec-lab.sogeti.com/pages/Origami

looks as though it is capable? It is available in the pentoo overlay via Layman

http://gpo.zugaina.org/app-forensics/origami

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:20 pm Post subject:

try PDF-XChange along with Wine

currently I'm using it from a virtualmachine with windows xp in it but will try whether it also works with Wine or CrossOver

edit:

works quite perfectly (with wine) I have to say - after my first session (with a pdf-document with around 200 pages)

so in the future I'll combine PDF-XChange (changes persistent in the pdf file) with okular (non-persistent in the pdf - stored in its cache)
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