Entering Greek Alphabet/Glyphs in PDF Comments

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To add Greek letters and glyphs, such as carets for unit vectors, in Adobe Acrobat comments, users can utilize different fonts, but the comment summary only supports plain text. While comments can incorporate specific fonts like Math A and Symbol, advanced features like LaTeX graphics are not supported. It's essential to have the desired font installed on the computer to use it in the PDF. However, once the correct character reference is used, the character can be embedded in the PDF, eliminating the need for the font on other devices. The PDF format standard is available for reference on Adobe's site, with the latest standards being ISO 32000-1.
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I am working with the pdf of a textbook and often find the need to add comments clarifying some issue for future reference. Can anyone tell me how to add greek alphabet and glyphs like letters with carets for example ^ for unit vectors in a adobe acrobat comments? Thanks in advance!
 
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Falgun said:
I am working with the pdf of a textbook and often find the need to add comments clarifying some issue for future reference. Can anyone tell me how to add greek alphabet and glyphs like letters with carets for example ^ for unit vectors in a adobe acrobat comments? Thanks in advance!
You should be able to use the
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comment to do different fonts. However, the comment summary on the right appears to allow only plain text. For example I did a comment using the
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comment and it allowed the Math A and Symbol fonts on the page but not in the comment summary.

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However, comments with ##\vec{F} \text{ and } \hat{j}## and other Latex graphics appears to be beyond Acrobat's comment capability.

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IIRC, you must have the font installed on the computer to include it in your PDF.

Once you figure out how to reference it (I think you have to use the 16bit UTF character reference), the character is stored in the generated PDF file and is not needed to be on the computer that is reading your file. (similiar to how a line drawing is included in the final PDF)

By the way, the PDF format standard is/was freely available on the Adobe site. Here is a bit of info I downloaded 8 years ago: (the reference is about 32 MB)

URL: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference_1-7.pdf
Date: 2016/07/21 22:18

Superceded by ISO 32000-1 2008. See also "adobe_supplement_iso32000.pdf"

Cheers,
Tom
 
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