James Thorniley
Lucas Wilkins
Joshaniel Cooper
Nathaniel Virgo
Sally FramptonNot the usual kind of topic, but this needs to go out into the wide world. How to print the annotations that sometimes one might get on a pdf file:
First install or upgrade Adobe Reader to 9.0:
sudo apt-get install acroread
or
sudo apt-get upgrade acroread
Then back up and open the following file in your home directory: “~/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Preferences/reader_prefs”
cd ~/.adobe/Acrobat/9.0/Preferences/
cp reader_prefs reader_prefs.backup
gedit reader_prefs
gedit will complain about the encoding, but ignore it and click “edit anyway” (we have a backup if anything goes badly wrong). Find the bit where it says:
/printCommentPopups [/b false]
and change “false” to “true”. Save the file. So it looks like
/printCommentPopups [/b true]
Now you can just open up your file in adobe reader
acroread filename.pdf
and print, making sure to select the “Documents and Markups” option in the “Comments and Forms” combo box in the print dialogue.
