topic Re: PDFs & annotations in Alfresco Archive

PDFs & annotations

enricocerica — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:16:15 GMT

Hi,We have indexed PDFs documents modified with the Adobe professional to allow users with acrobat reader to annotate them. The annotation works fine outside Alfresco and it works fine too when documents are opened via the CIFS, so the annotation process is just working fine.The problem occures when

Re: PDFs & annotations

jpfi — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:08:32 GMT

Hi,
by saying open per web client you are actually downloading the pdf via http.
You've to ensure that you are using WebDAV or CIFS for that purpose.

Cheers,
Jan

Re: PDFs & annotations

enricocerica — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:46:02 GMT

Thanks jpfi,

Is there a way to avoid the usage of CIFS or WebDAV to change a document, a plugin or some Ajax code which provides remote update functionnalities ? How does it work for text documents ?

Enrico

Re: PDFs & annotations

tommorris — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 19:15:50 GMT

Instead of using the default hyperlink on the alfresco web-client to open the PDF (which uses HTTP to download a copy) there is another hyperlink (in the details page, I think) that uses the browser to access the document using a CIFS path (works in IE fine and also Firefox with additional client download).

That way, your annotation and subsequent save, will update the repository. (I'd switch on auto-versioning before-hand, though).

I understand that you can customise the web-client to adopt this download option as standard, although this is only useful for users on the WAN/LAN.

I like your your idea of using a plug-in (probably a Java applet). This would need to store the client host and path information as meta-data on the object, and have permission to access files on the local machine. Anyone already written this?

Tom

Re: PDFs & annotations

christopheradam — Mon, 05 May 2014 02:43:24 GMT

When we are using Adobe reader to read and view pdf document, we can use its annnotation plugin to add and draw annotation object on pdf page. It is the same with a certain pdf document viewer which offers the options to create and customize <a href="http://www.rasteredge.com/how-to/vb-net-imaging/pdf-annotating/">pdf annotations</a>. Also, the annnotation add-on can be imtegrated within both windows pdf reader and online pdf viewer.