Direct to PDF - Comments

We have been asked if it possible to add "comments" when using Direct to PDF - we are currently on 9.6.2.

Has anyone else had reason to add comments to a PDF direct from XPP and if so how was this achieved.

Chris

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  • As Mark H would have said to me "Read The Manual" (except that is not quite what he would have said!).

    Using the -xpp-pdf-annotation: "type={note} text={hello world}"; does the trick fantastically (and will also output the contents of an attribute instead of set text - I am assuming this is not possible in item formats though!

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  • [edited version as per Jonathan's remarks]

    Indeed creating notes is simple.

    And if you are using classic IF/XMLmode, remember that you can add a CSS stylesheet that contains the rules with the pdf css properties, like the -xpp-pdf-annotion one. When you name that CSS file according to the style you use for that job, you just add the -pdfba option when printing. Direct PDF will use that CSS file and produce a PDF with annotations

    In the PDF Support in XPP manual you find the following on page 8-2 [PDF Tagging Features]:

    CSS is used to tag the textual content and generate bookmarks/annotations
    (links). Output options allow for creating a fully PDF/UA-compliant
    document or using CSS to generate bookmarks and annotations only,
    without having to tag all the content.
    These properties work with both CSS-XML and XML Divisions, provided
    that the XML is well-formed and the markup is based on the logical reading
    order of the document.

    PS: Mark H. was right, he was always right (even when he was wrong) Grinning

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  • [edited version as per Jonathan's remarks]

    Indeed creating notes is simple.

    And if you are using classic IF/XMLmode, remember that you can add a CSS stylesheet that contains the rules with the pdf css properties, like the -xpp-pdf-annotion one. When you name that CSS file according to the style you use for that job, you just add the -pdfba option when printing. Direct PDF will use that CSS file and produce a PDF with annotations

    In the PDF Support in XPP manual you find the following on page 8-2 [PDF Tagging Features]:

    CSS is used to tag the textual content and generate bookmarks/annotations
    (links). Output options allow for creating a fully PDF/UA-compliant
    document or using CSS to generate bookmarks and annotations only,
    without having to tag all the content.
    These properties work with both CSS-XML and XML Divisions, provided
    that the XML is well-formed and the markup is based on the logical reading
    order of the document.

    PS: Mark H. was right, he was always right (even when he was wrong) Grinning

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