Re: How to remove document restriction from PDF file generated by LaTeX?
- From: Erik Quaeghebeur <equaeghe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:36:02 +0200
On Jun 4, 2:52 am, Tim X <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
As I understand it, by default (i.e. if nothing is done), the ability to
anotate PDF files is disabled and has to be enabled. Its not so much that Latex
is disableing the feature, but rather it knows nothing about it and therefore
can't enable it. I think this is only possible with the latest version of
acrobat distiller. While someone may be able to work out how to enable this
feature in PDFs generated by Latex et al., its unlikely to occur for a while
(and who knows what the licensing restrictions imposed by Adobe might be).
Seeing as both the KDE team (with oKular) as the GNOME team (with Evince) are busy on annotation-capable pdf-viewers to be ready by the end of this year (already in SVN for KDE), I'd guess that within this and a year Adobe will be forced to free this feature; annotations are so useful that if others make it freely possible and Adobe wouldn't they'd lose marketshare (KDE apps are being ported to Windows and Mac as well, so it won't be Linux only).
Also, I think Adobe will think twice about sueing its customers over this, that would be a marketing disaster. (Apart from this, EULA's purportedly have questionable legal status in many places worldwide, even in the US.)
I haven't considered the possibility that annotating in the mentioned open source programs would also only be possible after doing the stupid 'Adobe plays the monopoly' activation procedure. That would be a bad sign for software development.
Erik
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