Master PDF Editor
http://code-industry.net/pdfeditor.php
The linux version of this software is free and closed source. It will not run on Debian Wheezy, as it requires glibc >= 2.14, whereas Wheezy has version 2.13. You can either pull in a newer libc from testing, or simply use testing (Jessie). See here for how to use glibc > 2.13 on wheezy: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/562-pulling-in-glibc-214-from-testing.html
So I tried it on Jessie.
While it almost works, I can't prevent the program from screwing up the fonts in the process. Also, the annotations don't show up in acroread for some reason. Saving as PDF/A didn't make any positive difference.
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| The annotation shows up in evince -- but the font's weird now |
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| Same goes for Xournal |
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| In acrobat reader before editing with Master PDF Editor |
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| in acrobat reader after adding an annotation. The annotation doesn't show up, but the fonts are screwed up. |
So we're almost there -- Master PDF Editor does everything I want in terms of PDF annotation, but at least on linux there are issues with the fonts in the resulting PDFs.
I, Librarian
http://www.bioinformatics.org/librarian/
I, Librarian is both free and open source. It claims to be web-based -- which is true but can be misunderstood. What it means is that it is browser-based and runs a server on your computer. My first thought when I see 'web-based' is that I'm handing over my data to someone else, but luckily that's not the case here.
I installed the .deb file meant for ubuntu.
Using I, Librarian is quite straight forward, but I could not see the annotations in any other program that I tried, which makes it of little use for me -- I make annotations in galley drafts for journal editors, and for students to give them feedback on latex documents.
Either way, to start, just go to http://127.0.0.1/librarian
Make sure to edit the settings to make I, Librarian use the internal pdf viewer in order for editing to work.
No matter what I did, I could not export my pinned annotations though. They did not show up in either evince or acroread.
