[plug] Annotating PDFs

[Craig Ringer]

Sham Chukoury wrote:

> Anyone else have better experience with annotating PDFs, using Linux
> tools?

Not yet ;-)

> If all else fails, I'm thinking it might be possible to write a Python
> app, with python-imaging and ReportLab libs, to do the job. Thoughts?

ReportLab is great for generating new PDFs, but AFAIK it doesn't provide 
any facility for reading and interpreting them. If you're looking to 
annotate existing PDFs, it's probably not what you want - unless you're 
willing to convert to SVG or similar first.

ReportLab's annotation support is also somewhat limited at present. It's 
great for doing outlines and internal links, but doesn't yet to external 
links, thumbnails, or (AFAIK) acrobat-style annotations.

Craig Ringer