On 24/04/14 20:15, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
Am 23.04.2014 20:23, schrieb Chris Murphy:
On Apr 22, 2014, at 2:51 PM, Ranjan Maitra
<maitra.mbox.ignored@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:52:52 +0200 Heinz Diehl <htd@xxxxxxxxxx>
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.
For what it's worth I have for the past almost-a-year been using a
commercial package called "PDF Studio" for my editing duties. (I am for
my sins the Technical Editor of a statistics journal.) PDF Studio is
reasonably Linux-friendly --- has worked without problem so far --- and
is not *too* brutally expensive; about $130 USD when I purchased it.
Its syntax is substantially different from that of Adobe Reader (or so
it seems) however. That wasn't a problem for me since I'd never got
used to using Adobe Reader for marking up, but it might be off-putting
to those who are into the Adobe Reader way of doing things.
BTW I could never get Okular to work worth a damn. This may be because
(a) I am still using Fedora 17, and (b) I am using the Mate Desktop r.t.
KDE or even Gnome.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
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