On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:04 +0200, C wrote: > On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnabl <gschn...@swdetroit.com> wrote: > >>> Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by > >>> Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that > >>> OOo/LO users will have that extra functionality. > >> > >> What purpose do you want this functionality for? > >> > >>> ... > >>> It seems foolish not to so enable them for the Comment and Review > >>> function, considering its ease to do so with no added cost or real > >>> time and effort... > >> > >> But for what purpose? > >> > >> Nino > > > > DUH! For any users wanting to add any highlighting and such--a thing > > typically done by millions of students and others over the past few decades > > on their printed material and books by (usually yellow-colored) magic > > markers. That highlighting functionality can also be done now electronically > > on PDFs (as it is commonly done on such converted PDFs) and even carried > > over to printed hard copy, if users so desire to print them out afterward. > > > > In addition to highlighting, editorial comments and the like by users could > > also be added directly to the PDF documents, among other capabilities. > > The big hole in that idea is that Adobe Acrobat Professional is a > Windows/MAC-only application that costs $449 US per license. That > leaves out those of us who use Linux... and the team members that > cannot afford that rather high license cost. > > It may be a nice-to-have feature, but due to cost and OS restrictions, > it will probably remain a nice-to-have. > > C. >
Does anyone know what pdf functionality LO exports have? I have never tested it myself, no interest until now. If they have the desire functionality then there is no reason to use Acrobat, just export from LO. Personally I do not highlight books or e-texts. For e-texts I use formatting to highlight important items for the reader. If something you can using formating in the original to draw the readers/users attention to it. If I need to edit a pdf file, I can use pdf Edit in Linux and I assume there are Windows/Mac equivalents. -- Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
