On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 22:31, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > On Thursday 25 September 2003 02:39, Robert E. Raymond wrote: > > Just Linux related, not Gentoo really, but: > > > > A class I'm taking requires that my PDF viewer be able to view comments > > that the instructor places inside the PDF file. Acrobat Reader 6 in > > Windows works just fine at viewing these comments (which appear usually > > as tooltips when I hover over them, or highlighted areas), but nothing > > in Linux (I've tried XPDF, Gnome PDF viewer, and kghostview, which show > > the PDF as it would look with zero comments, i.e. how I sent a PDF to > > them that I created from a LaTeX file, and also acrobat reader 5.08, > > which shows yellow highlighting with no text underneath and also won't > > show any of the tooltip type comments). > > > > Does anyone know of a viewer in Linux that supports these comments, or > > should I emerge wine and see if Acrobat Reader 6 works under that? > > I didn't have anything to do right now so I checked out the new PDF reference, > version 1.5, which is the format Acrobat 6.0 would use (Acrobat 5 used > PDF-1.4, Acrobat 4 used PDF-1.3 and so on). And it says that a new annotation > flag (it's called ToggleNoView) was introduced with PDF-1.5: > <quote> > A typical use is to have an annotation that appears only when a mouse cursor > is held over it. > </quote> > So for this to work you'll need a PDF-1.5 compliant reader and the only one I > know about is acrobat reader 6.0 which is at the moment only available for > Windows. > > However, what I find interesting is that you are able to read the files with > your linux tools just fine although they understand PDFs only up to the > version 1.4. It means that either they ignore the version tag of the PDF (the > first eight bytes = "%PDF-1.5") or that adobe tools create non-compliant > files which are v1.4 but use features from v1.5. Also PDF-1.5 has better > compression so that PDF-1.4 compliant apps cannot read them. > > Long story short, I couldn't find anything PDF-1.5 compliant except Acrobat > Reader 6.0 which is not available for linux yet. > > > Hope that sheds some light on the problem. > > Cheers, > Renat > > > P.S. Could you check out the version of your PDFs? Do a "head -c8 <file.pdf>". > Just curious.
Yes, it's definitely version 1.5 (at least the annotated version that got sent back to me- I sent 1.4 that I created with pdflatex). Thanks, Wine's getting emerged, we'll see if Acrobat Reader 6 works under it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
