Am 23.04.2014 20:23, schrieb Chris Murphy:

On Apr 22, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote:

On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:52:52 +0200 Heinz Diehl <h...@fritha.org>
wrote:

On 22.04.2014, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:

Okular lets you read, alter and add comments (I think, in the
English version they are called "Reviews")

I receive quite often .pdf files containing comments. Evince
reads them properly. Okular can be very slow sometimes, even
stuck in the middle of a large .pdf. I've never encountered that
with Evince.


Thanks very much to everyone who answered. I use zathura (which did
not have these feature, as does not xpdf) but I will try evince. I
don't want to try out okular if I can help it because it will
install 257 MB

For what it's worth (trivia!), on OS X, the Adobe Acrobat Pro 10.1.9
version executable is 826MB. This does not include a bunch of shared
libraries located elsewhere in the file system. And by default it has
"open in 32-bit mode" checked; so part of the reason why it's so huge
is that this application is "universal" in that it contains both
32-bit and 64-bit binaries; but still 32-bit is the default. I
haven't tried 64-bit, I'm going to guess that it's 32-bit by default
in order to support the array of 3rd party plugins with least
resistance.


Chris Murphy

The ability to exchange annotated PDF files is essential for my everyday work as a professional book editor (now being retired and working freelance) and one of the main reasons to stick to Windows.
So I tried to find out a bit further some options that I have in Linux:

*Adobe Reader*: The latest version Adobe offers to Linux users is 9.5.5 (btw, it's a rather huge download as well: 60 MB + 140 MB of dependencies). It reads all kinds of annotations, but I found no way to edit them or create new ones. There seems to be an option to activate a "Comment & Markup Toolbar", but that didn't work for me.

*Evince*: Annotations are visible, but you can only open and read "sticky notes", no "highlighted text notes" or "strikethrough text notes", which are very important for my work. No possibility to edit anything.

*Okular*: For me, it comes closer to what recent windows versions of the Adobe Reader have: It reads all kinds of annotations, you can edit them and you can add new ones which can be stored in a copy of the PDF file and which are read by Adobe Reader. But Okulars's annotation tools are different from those offered by Adobe Reader. As to the download size: It's a KDE application, so if you are on eg XFCE you have to download a bunch of additional libraries together with Okular.
Klaus

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