Three months ago, I complained about the fact we can’t see comments made in PDF files in Evince. With a recent update to Fedora Core 12, Evince was also updated to version 2.28.2 and, among many improvements, comments ( annotations) added to PDF files are now visible :-) Bye, bye, Adobe Acrobat Reader ;-)
Evince defines itself as “simply a document viewer” (for Linux/Gnome and now for Windows too). However it can already read a lot of formats: PDF, TIFF, PS, DVI, DJvu and plans to support a lot more in the future. But for me there is one important feature missing: the ability to read comments in PDF files. I sent PDF versions of draft documents to my PhD thesis promoters and they send them back with their comments. Open them in Evince: you’ll only get the balloons but no possibility to click on them (see Figure 1 below). Open them in Acrobat Reader and not only you can see that there are comments but you can also see their content (see Figure 2 below). ...