Re: [docbook-apps] Inserting Acrobat PDF "comments" into a Docbook PDF

[Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com>]

Jeff Hooker wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Google and the Adobe PDF specification have let me down; let's see if
> anyone here has the answer.
> 
> I'd like to be able to insert Acobat "comment" markers into the PDFs
> that I generate using the DocbookXSL stylesheets so that reviewers can
> simply use the "view next comment" feature in Acrobat rather than
> scrolling through long documents looking for visual change markers (we
> use DeltaXML to generate and style change markers). I can't find any
> information on how to form the markers, etc. Has anyone else ever done
> this? Got any ideas?

That's a neat idea.

These are done by inserting pdfmarks into the stream - googling for 
"pdfmark reference manual" should turn up the details. I don't know how 
you'd make a stylesheet emit a custom pdfmark however, doubtless it is 
processor-specific.

Cheers,

Chris