[Scribus] a bit off-topic: Tool to add notes to PDFs??

[Michael Higgins]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:41:06 +0100
Philipp Wagner <lists at philipp-wagner.com> wrote:

> Craig Ringer schrieb:
> > flaco wrote:
> >> Hej Guys!
> >>
> >> Does anyone out there know a easy-to-use cross-platform tool that
> >> allows to put annotations into an existing PDF-document?
> >>
> > I think annotation support was added to KPdf for KDE 4. That might
> > be a pretty big thing to get installed just for PDF annotations,
> > though.
> 
> They added annotation support (btw, okular, the new kpdf, is really
> fast!), but these annotations are not PDF annotations, but saved to a
> separate XML file (.kde4/share/apps/okular/docdata).
> 
> Well, there seems to be no solution (which was the result of my
> previous search, too), perhaps I'll find some time to look into
> okular and podofo and get them to work together ... Should not be
> impossible at least.

PDF::API2::Annotation, 2.001.

Have you checked this perl module? It should be easy-to-use, if you are
reasonably familiar with perl and pdf.