[MLUG] Experience with PDFs?

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

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On Sat, 20 Oct 2007, Joseph Ondrus wrote:

> Hey-oh... I have been using Adobe Acrobat Pro to take notes on slides 
> for class.  Acrobat allows you to add 'sticky notes' to PDFs.  Anyone 
> happen to know something that will do this or have a similar feature for 
> linux?  I would like to switch but I am having a bit of difficulty 
> finding a solution.  I am in the middle of installing pdfedit and 
> scribus.  Just updates to 7.10 (Ubuntu).


I don't have an answer, but I'll add a closely related question:  Can any 
free software programs display these sticky notes?  I think Acrobat is 
calling them "Pop-up Notes," but I'm not sure that we're talking about the 
same thing.  Anyway, to help figure this out, here's a PDF with pop-up 
note:

http://taxa.epi.umn.edu/~mbmiller/temp/innate05.pdf

You sould see something at the top of the first page, but will your viewer 
display this text?:

   Tooby, J., Cosmides, L. & Barrett, H. C.  (2005).  Resolving the debate
   on innate ideas: Learnability constraints and the evolved
   interpenetration of motivational and conceptual functions.  In
   Carruthers, P., Laurence, S. & Stich, S. (Eds.), The Innate Mind:
   Structure and Content.  NY: Oxford University Press.

In Acrobat, it's kinda like a post-it note that can be minimized.  I tried 
to view it in an old kghostview on my old Linux box, and it wouldn't 
display the note.  (Our IT guys want to run Red Hat Enterprise with 
"stable," or something, packages, so everything is absurdly out of date.)

Mike

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