CTAN Update: pdfcomment

[CTAN Announcements]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  pdfcomment

package.

Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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For a long time pdflatex has offered the command \pdfannot for inserting
arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in
a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is
indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions
in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe
Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a
convenient and user-friendly means of using \pdfannot to provide comments
in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports:

      LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX.

Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to
nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is
Adobe Reader.

License: LPPL

New in v1.2:

  - new options: voffset, hoffset, width, height, opacity, avatar, style
  - new annotation type: FreeText annotation
    -> \pdffreetextcomment
  - introduction of an avatar and style system
    -> \defineavatar, \definestyle, options avatar and style
  - printing the PDF annotations and popups is possible now!
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This package is located at 
   http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .

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Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf