have you tried installing acrobat reader under linux, maybe even under wine?

it may save you the trouble of installing win or mac.

regards
n

On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Anupam Jain <ajn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created
> with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the default gnome
> viewer) displays the yellow comment icons but does not show the text.
> For the time being I am using PDFEdit to manually navigate the tree
> and extract the comments but it is *very* inefficient and time
> consuming. Evince has the ability to read/edit comments in its roadmap
> but I need a solution now.
>
> The only thing I can think of right now is to install wine with foxit.
> But that seems like a copout. Anyone has any other *better* ideas?
>
> -- Anupam
>
> PS: I am desperately waiting for the day when people switch over to
> DjVu and ditch PDF for good.
>
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