On Jun 8, 2011, at 18:03, Maxwell, Adam R wrote: > > On Jun 8, 2011, at 01:53, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > >>>> The comments could not be imported because the document's permissions do >>>> not allow comment import operations >>> >>> I have screen captures of this that I'd be happy to share, and also a >>> sample PDF bundle (we have tried with a few different PDF documents to >>> reduce the odds that we somehow ended up with an anomaly). >>> >>> Can you (or someone else in the community) please try this with Acrobat >>> Reader X 10.0.1? This is version of Reader is the most current version >>> available from Adobe when electing to download Acrobat from their web site >>> (I don't have any previous versions to test against). >>> >>> Thanks, >>> >>> -Hydro >> >> I can confirm that Acrobat Reader does this in the latest version(s) 10.0.3. >> This must be a problem from them, as there should be no permission problem >> with the PDF I tested (there wasn't any permission restriction set >> whatsoever, the message is lying). > > > Can you enable user rights on the PDF? >
No, I don't have Pro. > http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Acrobat/8.0/Professional/help.html?content=WS58a04a822e3e50102bd615109794195ff-7e0d.html > > Linked to from these sites: > > http://acrobatusers.com/forum/collaboration-commenting/cannot-see-pdf-comments > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/635996/how-to-add-dynamically-add-comments-to-a-pdf-using-xfdf > > ISTR from discussion on c.t.t that this is a problem with pdftex-produced > PDFs, as noted here: > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/27482/latex-pdf-rights-management > Apparently then it's what I thought: Adobe doesn't allow you to use Reader to add these annotations (unless somehow you use Pro to allow it). This seems to contradict the specs, which basically say that you encrypt to *restrict* what you can do, and the specs also don't seem to say anything about this particular right. That's the problem with working with a format owned by a commercial company. Christiaan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced content authoring tool. Experience the power of Track Changes, Inline Image Editing and ensure content is compliant with Accessibility Checking. http://p.sf.net/sfu/ephox-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
