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I’ve been using LaTeX to prepare legal documents in PDF format with a tree of PDF bookmarks like this:

• list of facts
  -- exhibit A
  -- exhibit B
  -- exhibit C
  -- exhibit D
• law
  -- national
  -- international

So if you click “exhibit C” in the sidebar of the PDF viewer, it jumps to that document which has “exhibit C” in the corner of the doc in a bubble, along with commentary like “redactions in Bob’s version but not Alice’s”. I have no idea to what extent courts and lawyers appreciate or oppose metadata like this.

Some recipients want to see a verbatim version of the document without my markups. I am tempted to use the \usepackage{attachfile} … \attachfile{exhibit_c.pdf} which puts a thumbtack on the page whereby someone can click it and extract the original version without markups. The problem is that this embeds another redundant copy of the document in the PDF so every document presented will have two copies and ultimately double the size of the PDF.