Viewers With Annotation Viewing Capabilities

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Viewing PDF comments

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In Ubuntu 10.04 Evince does not display comments in an annotated PDF file. Or at least that is what my experience is when I was trying to view them. I searched for information about it and I found some people who complained about this feature missing.

I am wondering if anyone has suggestions for a good PDF viewer that run in gnome and displays comments in an annotated PDF file. I don't care about being to annotate the file myself right now, I just want to be able to view comments made by someone else.

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answered 1 Year ago enefiama · Accepted Answer

Well it seems Adobe has turned its back on the Linux community so I have to update this answer. I suppose you have moved to the latest Ubuntu or at least one that can use the more capable open source applications below.

Viewers With Annotation Viewing Capabilities

Open source viewers

Okular

A KDE based application, runs ok and looks ok in Gnome, one of the best open source applications that can both view and create annotations, note that this application can do standard and non standard annotations. You can create annotations that can be viewed by all viewers that support the pdf standard for annotations.

you can create annotations that does not interfere with the document, you will need to use Okular to view these, these can then be converted to standard annotations if you need to.

Evince

The default viewer on Ubuntu and most Gnome based desktops, the latest now have a somewhat limited support for standard pdf annotation viewing.

Proprietary Solutions

PDF Studio Pro

A very good fully capable PDF viewer and editor, from Qoppa Software, there are trial versions available for standard and pro, the pro verson has most of the features of Expensive tools from Adobe.

Some notable features of the pro version

Redaction, block out parts of documents you do not want people to see.

OCR, Make scanned pdf searchable

Digital Signature, sign documents adding image of signature.

Create and fill forms

Measure Tool, measure using scale factors, CAD type dimensioning.

Kami (Formerly Notable PDF)

Kami is a browser based solution, can view standard annotations, can create non standard annotations, this works with Google Chrome browser, you can save annotated PDFs on Google Drive read PDF documents from web pages,and download to desktop or save to Google Drive this can replace Chrome's default PDF viewer, there are free, premium and Work versions available the premium version is $15.00 a year and the work version is $50.00 a year.

Some work features

Ocr, create searchable pdf.

Unlimited e-Signature

Unlimited Files to Split

Unlimited Files to Merge