CTAN Update: pdfcomment

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Sun Aug 15 23:47:20 CEST 2010


On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

  pdfcomment

package.

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

Changes in v1.6:
  
- added support for using \pdfmarkupcomment in math mode
  (see: example_math_markup.pdf)

  feature request by: Ross Moore (he also contributed ideas
and code)
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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 .


Thanks for the upload.

For the CTAN Team
  Rainer Schöpf


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