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Old 03-17-2016, 01:59 AM   #1
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Dear all,
I want to correct some pdf files my students sent me. I would like to give some notes on the pdf files that my students would be able to read on their windows clients.

any ideas on what to try?
Alex
 
Old 03-17-2016, 03:42 AM   #2
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Dear all,
I want to correct some pdf files my students sent me. I would like to give some notes on the pdf files that my students would be able to read on their windows clients.

any ideas on what to try?
Alex
I propose two very different things. The first is abusing the header fields which are available in all pdfs for whatever you like to enter there. The format of the text entered is imposed by standards and the capabilities of the pdf-software that is used to enter the data and the pdf-software which will read the file.
So, your first option could be to use a program like pdfmod to modify the header fields. If your students use different pdf-readers, the result may or may not be what you want.

The second option is better, but imposes acrobat-reader or acroread (under Linux) for reading the PDF. You can attach files to a pdf. Any kind of file. So put your comments in a document that your students will be able to read (doc, docx, odf, PDF!) and attach it to the PDF with PDFTK. Others may know more programs like that. My experience with PDFTK and PDFMod are all good.
 
Old 03-17-2016, 07:09 AM   #3
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Try Okular pdf reader. It does pull in a bunch of KDE dependencies. But, it works splendidly in my experience. Okular is also fairly versatile - in the sense that your comments can be a simple "post it" note, a free hard drawing or a highlight of a text. (I am assuming you would use the highlight the most since you are commenting on students' work - at least that's what I used to do.)

Hope this helps.

Edit: Forgot to mention that the comments created by Okular can be easily read using Acrobat reader on a windows system.

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Old 03-17-2016, 02:33 PM   #4
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I would like to give some notes on the pdf files that my students would be able to read on their windows clients.
do not force your students to BUY Microsoft office !

have them install the FREE Libreoffice

libreoffice can read and write pdf's
( there might be some formatting issues ? )

however your best bet is to use odf format ( Open Document Format ) for the notes
 
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do not force your students to BUY Microsoft office !
I fullheartedly hail this comment from the book of John. SCNR. ;-) (Chapter 13 it is, I believe.., John XIII).

However, when you are able to add documents to a PDF-file, you are glued to a reader-application which must be able to give you access to these documents. For the time, I believe that only Adobe-software is able to do that. Even if the document is written as ODF (and/or converted to pdf thereafter), I fear that we were dealing a mute point by insisting on a schizophrenic approach...

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