College students and others who need to annotate PDFs

[nadinbrzezinski]

if you have an IPOD Touch I might have found a proggie for you. Aji Annotate. Now the wi fi transfer was quite useless, but using google docs worked. It will allow you to underline and do other stuff to your PDFs and we all know we need to do this...

And it wasn't that expensive either.

:-)

Just passing it along. And I will see if it behaves better with the wireless over the windows machine in a day or two.

[NYC_SKP]

1. Is this an improvement over what can be done with the Safari browser?

I mean being able to copy and past from a pdf?

That's doable with Safari for many pdf files.

And Safari is available for Mac or PC.

:shrug:

I just copied the text below from a pdf:

Thank you!
Much of the material used in this introduction comes from an Austrian
introduction to LATEX 2.09 written in German by:
Hubert Partl <[e-mail]>
Zentraler Informatikdienst der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Irene Hyna <[e-mail]>
Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung Wien
Elisabeth Schlegl <noemail>
in Graz
If you are interested in the German document, you can find a version
updated for LATEX 2ε by Jörg Knappen at
CTAN://info/lshort/german

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. No no, I mean I downloaded one of my JSTOR

articles to the IPOD touch (after uploading to google) and now I can mark up the text. The other readers out there for the IPOD touch you cannot.

Now I will have to see about emailing the damn thing to me later on, but still... I am a happy clam

:-)

LARGE research project and I wanted to avoid printing.

[NYC_SKP]

3. Oh, I get it. Yes, that's got to be an awesome tool to have.

To be able to read and make notations while away from the desk, on a train, whatever, and to not have to print dozens of pages.

So my next question, is it also an app for the iPhone?

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes

And that is a good thing.

[Swamp Rat]

6. great!

I don't have an iPod, but I'd love to be able to mark up (electronically) all my JSTOR PDFs stored on my computers (Mac, PC, LINUX). Do you know of any free OS X programs that do this?

I have 200+ articles I need to review this summer. I already printed out about that many from the 700+ articles related my research topic, but I do not want to waste ink and paper anymore.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Previuew does it on the MAC

and the PDF reader does it on the IBM... it depends on the security settings of the document itself.

You may want to try extracting them to your copy of word... and then mark up as you go

[Swamp Rat]

8. Yeah, I can do this with Preview, but it does not allow me to edit the mark-ups after I save

the file. Just a nitpick, but I'd like to be able to remove notes sometimes while keeping others that were added later.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. I've been able to remove notes on Preview

what bothers me is that the security settings don't allow me to... highlight on it... or annotate on the IBM...

I might start extracting the documents though.

[Swamp Rat]

10. I can remove them too, but not after the PDF is 'saved'

I'd really really like to be able to underline passages too, and also remove the yellow highlight color from the annotations.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. You are using JSTORS? I am goint to test opening a file

on my copy of word. That will make it much easier.

[Swamp Rat]

12. MS Word?

My copies of Word (Word 2008 on Mac, and Office 2007 on PC) are unable to open PDFs.

edit: JSTOR and other articles from WebCat, et al.

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. 2007 should be able to extract them, not just open them

Also I could just copy and paste to it.

:-)

[tXr]

14. PDF Xchange Viewer is a very good free PDF editing program.

It is Windows-only, but the portable version runs perfectly in Linux Mint using WINE.

It is the only free PDF program I have found that lets you edit and type on PDF documents.

http://www.docu-track.com/product/pdf-xchange-viewer

[Oregone]

4. If an IPOD is what you are most concerned with touching while in college....

give up now