For 2) what would be needed is a good cross-platform customized pdf reader
with annotations possibilities and a way to link these annotations to the
lyx document. I have used for my project Foxit which is not free but works
with Wine on Linux. Foxit has a very bad interface. Sadly annotations
support in poppler is unfinished.
I agree with this option - is there a good one out which could be
used? I know that Acrobat Reade can be used if pdf commenting is
allowed, which can apparently only be enabled through AcrobatWrite. If
there would be an alternative way of enabling the commenting in the
document for AcrobatReader, that would be, in most cases, a usable
solution
Using PDF as a sharing format seems a good idea as this will be
something most people will be familiar with.
I have had no success in getting people to collaborate using anything
other than Word or PDFs (With the exception of the company that I am a
Director in, where we now use Lyx for reports where we collaborate
internally, but have to fall back to Word for external collaborations)
This open source project is meant to enable commenting in PDFs (its
Windows only and needs Net 2.0) but may provide the tools for the
clever Lyx programmers to do this for Lyx
http://sourceforge.net/projects/arenable/
I have searched and searched for a tool, other than Adobe Acrobat
Professional, to enable commenting on PDFs and this was all I could come
up with.
It could then maybe be possible to develop using PDF as the Lyx
collaborative format using PDF compare/merge tools (which already exist,
I think) before converting back to Lyx.
For commenting on PDFs at the moment I use
http://www.qoppa.com/psindex.html as it runs on Linux, Macs and
Windows, but its a commercial program.
Graham
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