Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-14 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 15 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > Raju, Can radio schizoid be streamed to Amarok? I couldn't figure out > a way to get Amarok to play pls files which Schizoid.in provides. Desperately off-topic now, but still: In Amarok, click on the Playlists tab on the left. Right-click on Radio Stre

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:53 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > On Thursday 14 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> [snip] >> On a related note: KDE might not be as stable and smooth as Gnome >> right now but application wise it is showing potential! Installing >> the kdegames package brings in some of the nicest

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-14 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 14 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > [snip] > On a related note: KDE might not be as stable and smooth as Gnome > right now but application wise it is showing potential! Installing > the kdegames package brings in some of the nicest timepass (non FPS) > games I have seen. One of my laptops

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-14 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur > wrote: >> > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> >> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments >> >> (created with Acrobat Pr

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-10 Thread Ramkumar R
> 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. Take this opportunity to write a patch to fix Evince to show comments. File a bug here

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread Pawan
Anupam Jain writes: > 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 20

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread vivek v
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Arun Khan wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009, sankarshan wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur > wrote: >> > BTW, OpenOffice reads PDF?  I didn't know that! >> >> > > I found the above indep

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread Arun Khan
On Thursday 07 May 2009, sankarshan wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > BTW, OpenOffice reads PDF?  I didn't know that! > > I found the above independent of this thread as I needed to import a PDF (v1.3) fi

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Linux Lingam 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. >

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-07 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur > wrote: >> > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> >> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments >> >> (created with Acrobat Pr

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread sankarshan
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 8:44 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > BTW, OpenOffice reads PDF?  I didn't know that! -- http://www.gutenberg.net - Fine literature digitally re-published http://www.plos.org - Public Library of Science http://www.cre

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Linux Lingam
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

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Thursday 07 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > >> What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments > >> (created with Acrobat Professional) on GNU/Linux? Evince (the > >> default gnome v

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Anupam Jain
On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Raj Mathur wrote: > On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: >> 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 s

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Raj Mathur
On Wednesday 06 May 2009, Anupam Jain wrote: > 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

Re: [ilugd] GNU/Linux PDF viewer with ability to read comments

2009-05-06 Thread Linux Lingam
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 wrote: > Hey all, > > What's the easiest way to read PDFs with embedded comments (created > with Acrobat Profe