PDF documents - is there a good tool for remote collaboration: highlightings, annotations, comments, notes?

Posted by sciagent
Dec 15, 2013 at 11:56 PM

Hillman, yes, it really contains:) Still a price tag is too high. Under a current economical situation I just cannot drop to few of my colleagues something like: “Would you spend a bit above a hundred euros to one more tool, or ask your university to do that?” I afraid even expenditure of 40 euros is not justified - at least while we speak of a piece of software that does not replace few of the convenient tools by offering something better.

Yes, everything you said about the Acrobat is true, but you see above…

Paul, thank you for a request for clarification. I really meant the case when few collaborators work on the same document, and result of the work is seen by everyone immediately. And it is important to maintain the layout of the original document (particularly, page numbers) - to be able to discuss of the document with outsiders who are aware of the document. Documents are complicated (a mixture of text, figures, illustrations, and tables), often are having more than 100 pages, where some of those are rotated.

There are few commercial solutions, but do not seem to be affordable:
Crocodoc
A.nnotate.com
GroupDocs Annotation

And free, but not provide a required functionality:
PDFescape (a free version is limited - up-to 100 pages; annotation tools are not convenient)
PDFzen (does not save annotations)