CTAN update: pdfcomment
Date: June 14, 2026 8:52:43 AM CEST
The LaTeX Project Team submitted an update to the
pdfcomment
package.
Version: 3.0a 2026-06-12
License: lppl1.3c
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations
Announcement text:
* Full rewrite if the PDF management is used * Added tagging support * New command \pdfsquaretooltip * Corrected and documented the command \pdfreply
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfcomment The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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* Full rewrite if the PDF management is used * Added tagging support * New command \pdfsquaretooltip * Corrected and documented the command \pdfreply
The package’s Catalogue entry can be viewed at https://ctan.org/pkg/pdfcomment The package’s files themselves can be inspected at https://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment/
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
CTAN is run entirely by volunteers and supported by TeX user groups. Please join a user group or donate to one, see https://ctan.org/lugs
pdfcomment – A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations
The package allows to add text, line, square, circle, text markup annotations and tooltips to a PDF.
Support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers may vary.
The package is tagging compatible.
| Package | pdfcomment |
| Version | 3.0a 2026-06-12 |
| Copyright | 2008–2018 Josef Kleber 2026 Ulrike Fischer, LaTeX Project |
| Maintainer | Ulrike Fischer The LaTeX Project Team Josef Kleber (deceased) |