LaTeX in annotations

[Rodvi]

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.

[try67 · Accepted solution]

No. A sticky note can only contain plain text.

[Rodvi]

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]

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.

[Test Screen Name]

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.

[Phillip_M_Feldman]

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