RE: PDF annotations

On 2014-03-05 Liam R E Quin wrote:
> On Tue, 2014-03-04 at 19:15 +0100, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > 
> > in my use case I need to place PDF annotations (stored in the 
> > source XML) on specific places (IDs) within the final PDF files. 
> > It can be done, but it requires some pre- and post-processing 
> > steps utilizing non-XML tools. 
>
> Although we talked about this in the XSl-FO 2 work, there are 
> XSL-FO extensions implemented by various implementations to support 
> this use case.

AFAIK my real use cases described here cannot be handled now, yet:
https://www.w3.org/community/ppl/wiki/PDF_Annotations

It might get a higher priority now :-)

> It's possible we'll see a new Web Annotations WG soon - there's a
> Workshop coming up next month in the Bay area.

Glad to hear there is some activity in this field. 

But I am afraid my usage is too paged-media specific...

Thanks, Jan

Received on Wednesday, 5 March 2014 20:17:11 UTC