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.
If possible, get this package from your distribution using its installation manager. (For installation help, click on your distribution's name.)
| Distribution | Package name |
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| MiKTeX | pdfcomment |
| TeX Live | pdfcomment |
You can also visit pdfcomment's CTAN directory to browse the source or download the material for installation by hand.
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| Version | v2.3 | |||||
| License | LaTeX Project Public License, version 1.3 or later | |||||
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