How to add notes to text that appear highlighted in compiled pdf?

Question

I am going to submit my major revision and in compiled pdf file I have added notes to text that have been edited or where new text is inserted, so that reviewer can easily identify corrections made by me. But if I further edit my source file then the notes in pdf would be useless and I have to again repeat the process of inserting notes to text. The following snapshot describes what actually I do

Is it possible to add such type of notes to text directly in the latex document , such that those notes can be activated or inactivated as per requirement ? I am aware of todonotes but not appropriate for me.

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 30 '16 at 12:59

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The pdfcomment package is what you are looking for. To disable the annotations, use the option final.

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage{xcolor}

\usepackage[%
%   final%
]{pdfcomment}

\begin{document}

\pdfmarkupcomment[color=yellow]{New version of text, you want to have in the pdf}{Comment or old text or whatever}

\end{document}

answered Jun 30 '16 at 12:59

samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz

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And how we can inactivate these notes ? Do we have to manually delete those lengthy commands ? – IgotiT Jun 30 '16 at 13:04
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@IgotiT final option, as I wrote in the answer – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Jun 30 '16 at 13:06
Why my WinEdt is asking for file datetime2.sty ? – IgotiT Jun 30 '16 at 16:29
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@IgotiT the package pdfcomment requires it. see documentation: ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/pdfcomment/doc/pdfcomment.pdf – naphaneal Jun 30 '16 at 17:53

How to add notes to text that appear highlighted in compiled pdf?

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