[plug] Annotating PDFs

[Sham Chukoury]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 13:23, Craig Ringer wrote:

> 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.

Ah, right.. In that case, it might be better to maybe use python-imaging
and python-biggles to convert from PDF to SVG, then feeding it into
Scribus...

§:)