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So, is there really no way to programmatically enable commenting on a PDF without installing the massive LiveCycle server software?  It seems to me a pretty simple thing i can open a PDF file in Adobe 8 and simply click the "enable commenting and reader" option and tada it is commenting enabled.  But i have been trying for quite a while now to find a way to perform this same functionality in code.  I looked into automating this process through Adobe Pro, but found the same result everywhere i looked and that was not possible.  Basically I am using itext to create PDFs and i want commenting to be enabled in reader for these PDFs, unfortunately i cannot perform this functionality with itext.

It seems absurd for me to even investigate LiveCycle Reader Extensions when this is the only functionality i require and i have heard pricing estimates to be from 50K - 1M.  Although i have downloaded the trial, but now have to downgrade my version of Java to even install the trial.  I have already found the code above and it appears that it will do what i need, but it is just not fiasble for me to get LiveCycle for this simple task.  Any known solutions on how to peform this task in code?