\pdfmarkupcomment in standalone

Question

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pdfcomment}
\begin{document}
\pdfmarkupcomment[color=red,markup=StrikeOut]{A little Test!}{Why is this repeated? This is a StrikeOut markup annotation} 
\end{document}

The pdfmarkupcomment is not shown. With \documentclass{article} it is. How can I make use of pdfmarkupcomment in standalone?

Ulrike Fischer · Accepted Answer · 2021-04-20T10:22:42.213

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pdfcomment use soulpos to calculate the size of the annotation. soulpos writes some values with \AtEndDocument to an external file, but with standalone the \AtEndDocument is not executed (it would if you would use multi, but then the page size is wrong).

You can execute the needed code manually

\documentclass[]{standalone}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{pdfcomment}
\begin{document}
\pdfmarkupcomment[color=red,markup=StrikeOut]{A little Test!}{Why is this repeated? This is a StrikeOut markup annotation}%
\makeatletter
\closeout\ulp@out
  \closein\ulp@in
  \write@auxout{\string\ulp@afterend}%
  \def\ulp@afterend{%
    \ulp@cnt\z@
    \message{* soulpos - computing points - it may take a few seconds *}%
    \immediate\openout\ulp@out=\jobname.upb\relax
    \begingroup
      \makeatletter
      \InputIfFileExists{\jobname.upa}{}{}%
    \endgroup
    \immediate\closeout\ulp@out}%
\makeatother

\end{document}

edited Apr 20 '21 at 10:22

answered Apr 19 '21 at 09:52

Ulrike Fischer

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mhm weird, for me that does not work – user239572 Apr 19 '21 at 12:04
i.e. it does not change a thing – user239572 Apr 19 '21 at 16:29
it seems to "work" if I call pdflatex on a documentclass article and change it afterwards to standalone and recall pdflatex (without deleting the ^*tex files); that seems unintended; do you get an annotated pdf with directly setting documentclass to standalone?? – user239572 Apr 20 '21 at 05:55
hm, right it was a side effect. I will adapt the answer. – Ulrike Fischer Apr 20 '21 at 10:19
thanks again frau fischer =) – user239572 Apr 20 '21 at 14:19

\pdfmarkupcomment in standalone

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