still looking for decent PDF annotation tool

[MR ZenWiz]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Robert P. J. Day
<rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
:
>
>  my colleague describes what she has as the "fully paid Adobe Reader
> package" on a mac, so it sounds like what you're describing.  but my
> question sort of remains -- what is it that is embedded in that
> product that is so difficult to find in an OSS utility?  is it a
> licensing issue?  a reverse-engineering issue?  am i just not
> understanding the fundamental problem here?  sorry if i'm being
> utterly clueless.
>

Well, you are, but that's ok.  PDF is a proprietary format owned and
operated by Adobe.  While many utilities exist to mess with them, most
do not allow you to edit them.  AFAICT, even Acrobat won't let you
"edit" a PDF so much as create a new one from an old one and then
rewrite the file (which is functionally the same but technically a
little different).  PDFs are great for exchanging files that never
need to be changed again.  For everything else, there's
LibreOffice....

:-)