CTAN Update: pdfcomment

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the pdfcomment package. For a long time pdflatex has offered the command \pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the – occasional – questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LATEX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using \pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports: LaTeX -> dvips -> ps2pdf, LaTeX -> dvipdfmx and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader. Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment Summary description: A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations License type: lppl Announcement text:

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New in v1.4: - new annotation type: PDF sideline, line, polyline, polygon, square and circle annotation -> \pdfsidelinecomment, \pdflinecomment (type=line|polyline|polygon), \pdfsquarecomment, \pdfcirclecomment - new options: font, fontsize, fontcolor, borderstyle, dashstyle, bse, bsei, line, type, lineend, linebegin, icolor, caption, captionhoffset, captionvoffset

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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