{"id":20,"date":"2012-08-10T13:16:02","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2012-08-10T13:16:02","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T17:16:02","slug":"viewing-pdf-annotation-on-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/?p=20","title":{"rendered":"Viewing PDF annotation on Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When reviewing and editing papers, my advisor likes to use his copy of Adobe Acrobat to mark-up the insertions, deletions, and add comments to the original PDF. This works nicely, but when overlapping comments are present, such as a block comment over an entire paragraph with sentence-specific edits &#8220;underneath&#8221; the block comment, none of the &#8220;standard&#8221; PDF viewers on Linux (including the official Adobe Reader for Linux) are able to access the buried mark-up. Fortunately, I have discovered that a freeware program called <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracker-software.com\/product\/pdf-xchange-viewer\">PDF XChange Viewer<\/a><\/strong> can be easily run using WINE, and allows you to view, edit, and create PDF annotations. I haven&#8217;t tried creating or editing annotations, but I certainly do use it to delete block annotations covering up the more specific edits.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gnurou.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/finally_real_pdf_annotating_under_linux\" title=\"Finally, real PDF annotating under Linux! (with help from Wine)\">Finally, real PDF annotating under Linux! (with help from Wine)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When reviewing and editing papers, my advisor likes to use his copy of Adobe Acrobat to mark-up the insertions, deletions, and add comments to the original PDF. This works nicely, but when overlapping comments are present, such as a block comment over an entire paragraph with sentence-specific edits &#8220;underneath&#8221; the block comment, none of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,11,9,8],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-linux","tag-productivity","tag-software","tag-tools"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BznB-k","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbeckler.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}