![]() This may be something that has been fixed…I encountered this problem several years ago. The color is ON TOP of the text thus blocking it. OH! I’ve also had trouble printing with highlighting…If I recall, printing a PDF after I’ve highlighted in Acrobat results in solid blocks of color over the exact bits that I’m most interested in. (or eventually iAnnotate once I get my iPad.)Ĭan anyone comment on the nature of annotations in Papers 2?Īlso, alt-click comes in super handy for highlighting and underlining in 2-column format. Once you’re done, click Save as on the top right. To highlight or draw on any part of the PDF, click the Draw icon. Hover over and click on the area where you want to add text. Click the Text icon at the top to add text to the PDF. However, if I’m making comments on someone’s manuscript, I use Preview. After opening your PDF file in Edge, here’s what you need to do. So, when I’m making notes for myself in published journal articles (usually highlights or underlines), I use Skim + BibDesk. They beauty is that they show up in the Comments in BibDesk and are searchable! Which, as far as I know, is not true of annotations made with other programs. Now, the advantage of Skim is that the annotations are basically stored as a text file that can be read by other programs. Just looking at the above comments, it looks like Acrobat, Preview, and iAnnotate annotations play nice with each other. Last I looked into this, the annotations made in Skim can’t be seen in Preview unless you specifically export them. One thing that’s hinted at, but not stated directly is that you gotta be careful about interoperability! I don’t know the details, but I know that Skim and Preview/Acrobat handle annotations very differently. ![]() Hopefully, this post pushes people to collectively start using annotated PDFs. ![]() Preview/Acrobat do a fairly good, but not perfect, job of reading annotations from each other. While I find it to be less friendly (although my most recent version 10.0.2 looks better), it is cross-platform and allows you to share your PDFs with collaborators. One feature that is lacking is being able to combine annotations from two different people (on the same file), but here I might be getting too greedy.Īdobe Reader, not just Adobe Acrobat Pro, has the Annotations features as well. The notes can also be of different color, making the parsing process much easier when multiple commenters are involved. Simply open the PDF in Dropbox that you want to annotate, click on the location on the PDF you’re talking about, and then add your comment. You can also annotate a stored PDF file by adding your notes in Dropbox comments. When I am done with the comment, I can delete (or minimize) it, giving me a measure of what I have accomplished. You can annotate and view comments on any PDF file stored in Dropbox from your desktop or mobile app. One very useful feature: in the sidebar, you can switch to “Annotations” view and it will list all the comments. I find these much more convenient than the Big Red Pen (no need to decipher what that curly character means), text emails detailing the comments like your journal referee (no need to find page 15, paragraph 3, sentence 4), or scanned hard copies. I have been using Preview’s annotate feature for getting / giving feedback on paper drafts with collaborators.
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