CTAN has a new package: pdfcomment
Date: December 8, 2008 10:22:31 AM CET
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Josef Kleber submitted the new package
pdfcomment
to CTAN.
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment
Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
For a long time pdflatex offers the command \pdfannot for inserting arbitrary pdf annotations. However, in a form where additional knowledge of the pdf reference is indispensable. pdfcomment.sty is an answer to the – from time to time – emerging questions in newsgroups, how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least out of the LaTeX code pdfcomment.sty offers a convenient and user-friendly possibility to use pdf annotations in pdf files. Unfortunately the support of pdf annotations by pdf viewers is only partly available to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
For a long time pdflatex offers the command \pdfannot for inserting arbitrary pdf annotations. However, in a form where additional knowledge of the pdf reference is indispensable. pdfcomment.sty is an answer to the – from time to time – emerging questions in newsgroups, how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least out of the LaTeX code pdfcomment.sty offers a convenient and user-friendly possibility to use pdf annotations in pdf files. Unfortunately the support of pdf annotations by pdf viewers is only partly available to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment . More information is at http://tug.ctan.org/info/?id=pdfcomment (if the package is new it may take a day for that information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html . Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Rainer Schöpf
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 | 3.0b 2026-06-15 |
| Copyright | 2008–2018 Josef Kleber 2026 Ulrike Fischer, LaTeX Project |
| Maintainer | Ulrike Fischer The LaTeX Project Team Josef Kleber (deceased) |