On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Linux Lingam <linuxlin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear anupam, > > if i read your need correctly, you wish to view and comment on > documents in a collaborative environment. > Hence the need to read comments in pdf. You mention you've asked > people to move from msoffice fileformats to pdf. > Maybe it's too late to recommend another workflow, but here's what i use: > ask everyone to turn on 'record changes' and 'view Changes' in oo.o on > any platform. Plus oo.o allows you to embed comments in-line. It > works.
In hindsight, that's what I should have suggested. The problem here is that asking people to send me DOC files instead of DOCX usually draws a blank stare. They have no idea what I am talking about "Do you want a Word doc or not?". I have to explain how to NOT choose the default extension and instead save as a Word 2003 compatible document and that is too complicated for them. Microsoft really hit a home run here with creating confusion. If instead I ask them to send me only PDF files, they understand what needs to be done. I had assumed that atleast reading comments would be well supported in Linux. I was wrong. > the other option is to use a CMS on which you upload your files and > add comments on the cms. Example: plone. Well the comments have to be on specific parts of the document, so this is not an option. > > on another note, please share whether installing acroread helped. Sort of. I can read comments easily. Still cannot edit them but that is a lower priority right now. When I really do need to edit / add comments I will use PDFEdit. Xournal's PDF support seems pretty good though and it's a very useful application if you have a tablet. It doesn't help my situation but for people sharing PDF files between GNU/Linux machines, it's another good option. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
