CTAN Update: pdfcomment

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Wed Mar 11 06:31:15 CET 2009


On Tue, 10 Mar 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.

New in v1.3:

  - new annotation type: PDF text markup annotation
    (known from the comment function of Adobe Reader)
    -> \pdfmarkupcomment
  - new option: markup (Highlight,Underline,Squiggly,StrikeOut)
  - Bugfix: avatar and style system
            wrong key families (copy and paste)
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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


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