Comments on: PDF annotation under Linux with Wine and PDF-XChange Viewer

By: prosist

prosist — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 08:48:48 +0000

thank you very much!

By: Francois

Francois — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:57:41 +0000

Hi Venkat. Thanks for the ‘shell extensions’ tip, I’ll have to try it. To be honest XChange Viewer is the only program I use through Wine so I never really took the time to learn about Wine in general… maybe I would’ve saved some time, actually, doing that.

By: Venkat

Venkat — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 15:53:01 +0000

Hi Francois,

I got here through google.

Fantastic tip. Thanks for solving one of my pet peeves on Linux.

I’m using ubuntu-10.10 x86-64 and I don’t even need the openpdf.sh script to start. I installed the Xchange viewer with shell extensions and it automatically shows up in Nautilus. Great.

By: Francois

Francois — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:09:54 +0000

Hi Tshann,

I remember having searched a lot of time (with lots of episodes of giving up to try a few months later) for a Linux-native app with solid highlighting and commenting feature. I was just happy to find anything at all (open source or not), but the free version does much more than I ever wanted for annotation, anyway.

The only downside for me is that under Wine it loses my config upon restart, so I have this 30-second routine where I reload it and set windows right etc. I don’t use Wine for anything else… I guess at some point I’ll figure out the problem had a simple fix

Thank you for passing by.

By: Tshann

Tshann — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:34:11 +0000

Hi,
Been using this product for years in linux – works better than anything that is possible in linux – unfortunately. I’m using it now in my Debian Squeeze distro – Crunchbang Statler. But I’ve used it in all my distro’s and it works great in all of them. I have a few business machines – use it in those rigs as well. FAR better than Adobe Pro – tiny footprint and does virtually everything that Adobe does – without being a pig. The cost of buying (if you need some of the basic features) is reasonable as well. But for most, the simple free version will suffice. AWESOME product. I only wish other essential windows software worked as well in wine.

By: Francois

Francois — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:01:34 +0000

Hi Paulo, thanks for the comment; happy to see that setup is still working in newer OSes. For others who’d like to use it on Ubuntu 10.10, could you specify what changes you made?

By: Paulo Polito

Paulo Polito — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 14:14:06 +0000

Thank you for the info. Works fine in Ubuntu 10.10 64, just needs editing the $App directory structure.

By: joon

joon — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 05:32:50 +0000

Thank you very much for this script. Very helpful and works like a charm.

By: Francois

Francois — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:04:13 +0000

Thanks for the comment Charl. Glad to see others are using it! I myself still use it a lot under Ubuntu 9.10 (also 64 bit).

By: Charl Botha

Charl Botha — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 21:01:07 +0000

Thanks for writing this up!

I just followed your howto on Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04 on x86_64) with the PDFXChange 2.0 installer and wine1.2. Works like charm.