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Rodvi
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September 20, 2018
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LaTeX in annotations

  • September 20, 2018
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Hello. I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC 17 and a pdf file. Are there any ways to add a sticky note with a rendered LaTeX formula inside it? I have only pdf file and don't have any sources (.tex, .docx, etc) of this file.

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    Correct answer try67

    No. A sticky note can only contain plain text.

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    Test Screen Name
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    September 21, 2018

    The rules of PDF do not include any way to render LaTeX content, no matter how you get it into the file. LaTeX can be used to make PDF content, but by the time it is a PDF, all the rendering has happened.

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    Phillip_M_Feldman
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    November 26, 2019

    When one creates sticky notes via Acrobat and then prints the document, the contents of the sticky notes receive special handling and appear in the Summary of Comments page.  The special handling could include processing of LaTeX or anything else that Adobe sees fit to do.

     

    Dr. Phillip M. Feldman

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
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    September 20, 2018

    No. A sticky note can only contain plain text.

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    RodviAuthor
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    September 20, 2018

    Thanks. Is it true for all other types of text annotations in Acrobat? I mean I want to create an annotation which will contain both

    • some editable non-LaTeX text (like any usual annotation)
    • and a rendered LaTeX formula (for example .png image)
    try67
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    try67Community Expert
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    September 20, 2018

    The only type of comment that can contain non-textual objects is a stamp, I believe.

    You can also use the File Attachment comment to attach whole files, but they won't show up on the page. Same goes for an Audio Recording comment.

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