On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>wrote:
[SNIP]
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.
>
In the vein of this thread, I took a PDF document which had no comments,
opened it with Preview Version 5.0.3 (504.1) on Mac OS X 10.6.7 and then I
added various annotations with Preview. I then saved the PDF and brought it
over to the very same Windows machine running Adobe Acrobat Reader (version
10.0.1) that I used a few days ago to try and read annotations egressed as a
PDF bundle from Skim. Very interestingly, Acrobat did not once complain
about reading the PDF with annotations saved from Preview and what is more,
I could read all of those annotations. So is Apple colluding with Adobe?
btw, I disagree with the comment that PDF is "a format owned by a commercial
company" per the following excerpt:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf
Originally a proprietary
format<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprietary_format>,
> PDF was officially released as an open
> standard<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_standard>on July 1, 2008, and
> published by the International
> Organization for
> Standardization<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Organization_for_Standardization>as
> ISO
> 32000-1 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_32000-1>:2008.
>
The Acrobat Reader is proprietary and yes is owned by a commercial company
(Adobe) but a variant of the originally proprietary format has been made
into an ISO standard. Is there not any interest in the Skim community to
pressure Adobe to "fix" Acrobat 10.x on Windows such that it will correctly
read annotations exported to PDF bundles by Skim?
-Hydro
> Christiaan
>
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