still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[Colin Law]

On 21 January 2011 17:33, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jan 2011, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
>> I think the whole problem of PDF files is that they are designed to
>> be immutable objects - so any form of annotation that changes the
>> PDF itself should be impossible.  For someone to send you a PDF for
>> annotation is completely wrong and misses the point of having PDFs
>> in the first place, so they should not object to having your
>> annotations and edits sent back to them in some other format.
>>
>> So any method of annotation is going to be a bit of a botch.
>
>  so, out of curiosity, how does adobe reader work?  a colleague tells
> me she has the commercial adobe reader on her mac, and she can
> annotate PDFs just fine.  so what is adobe reader doing to that file?

I don't think she is doing it with Adobe *reader* (which is free), I
suspect she has the pdf *writer* professional package (the name of
which I forget) that is used to create/edit pdf files.

Colin