On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 Josef Kleber submitted an update to the

pdfcomment

package.

Summary description: A user-friendly interface to PDF annotations License type: lppl

Announcement text: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.

License: LPPL

Changes in v2.1:

- added support for PDF reply system pdfcomment[avatar=Joe,id=1]{comment} pdfreply[avatar=Bob,id=2,replyto=1]{reply to comment} works for pdflatex only!

- added options id,date,timezone

- added support for new icon CrossHairs (Adobe Reader X)

- Bugfix: problem with pdfmarkupcomment with page break ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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