Questions tagged [annotation]
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How can I highlight or annotate PDFs?
Currently I need to highlight certain sections in PDFs, or add annotations (comments/notes). These modifications would need to be saved.
What tools are out there to do this on Ubuntu?
ssanj
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How do I create highlights on a screenshot?
In Chipaca's answer to Managing files and sync scenarios there's a screenshot with certain highlights. The highlights are the following:
A row of a GUI list is highlighted by the other parts of the screenshot being darker.
A check mark is…
N.N.
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Cannot find Highlight tool in Adobe Reader or Okular
I use Elementary OS Luna 64 bit. I'm trying to get the PDF annotating tools for highlighting text on PDF documents. I tried Adobe Reader and Okular. But both haven't that feature on my PC. But when I gogling I could see that both of those readers…
jkvithanage
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How to Install Okular 0.15 on 12.04 LTS?
See here for reference: http://okular.kde.org/news.php
The new version includes an option to save annotations to the PDF file itself. That's why I am very eager to try out. Is there any PPA from which I could install this new version?
Edit:…
Glutanimate
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Keyboard shortcuts for evince annotation?
I would like to make c a shortcut for inserting a comment and h a shortcut for highlighting. Other keyboard shortcuts could do, e.g., if modifier keys are required. Pressing one of these keys would be equivalent to pressing the annotation icons in…
Jonas Lindeløv
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How to save/overwrite an annotated file with Evince?
I am using the pre-installed Document Viewer (Evince) to annotate pdf-files. There does not seem to be a "Save" option and under "Save a Copy" I need to click through the folder to find the pdf location manually because the saving location is not…
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Auto-Saving in Okular - is it possible?
Is there a way of auto-saving annotations and highlights in Okular 0.19.3?
Every time I make a change, I got to Ctrl+Shift+S to save it, and sometimes I forget it, I close the window and the software doesn't show a reminder window (as some others do…
Cabeça de Vento
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How can I annotate PDFs so notes are compatible with Adobe Reader for Win/OSX?
I am looking for a tool which allows me to annotate PDFs in Ubuntu and share the PDFs with annotations with people who use OSX or Windows. I cannot assume that the others can or will install special software to read the annotations.
I am therefore…
Rasmus
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Stay in Annotation mode in Okular?
I am trying to markup a PDF that I have in Okular. I would like to make a lot of notes with my Bamboo tablet, but every time I lift the pen, I go back to the default mode. This obviously defeats the purpose.
Is there a way to stay in Annotation…
skaz
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Going through annotations in Okular
I use Okular to read and annotate PDF textbooks. I use mostly highlighting alone but I sometimes add a pop-up note attached to highlighted text. When I want to read some material again, I like to just go through my annotations: I open the navigation…
Ben
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Annotating PDFs in Evince and then viewing the output in Acrobat / Adobe products
As I don't use Windows whatsoever and have been a big fan of Evince for some time, I was really happy to learn that Evince now supports the addition of annotations (even if it doesn't support the deletion of them, which I find odd).
I have a paper…
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How to view annotated powerpoint presentations in Ubuntu?
I have some .pptx presentation files, which were annotated with a stylus in an online class. These annotations do not show up in LibreOffice Impress 7.0.3.1 in Xubuntu 20.04 (I am using the LibreOffice Fresh PPA).
Is there any way to see these…
Archisman Panigrahi
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Add tags or annotations to text files
I have a lot of similar text files - data in csv format etc. - that differ only in minor aspects (data normalized or not normalized...). It is very difficult to find meaningful names for the different files that allow me to keep track of what I did…
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PDF reader with Highlighting support and save the file
Possible Duplicate:
How can I highlight PDFs?
I am missing the feature of Highlighting the PDF file directly from reader and saving the changes in the file. This is a feature of Adobe Acrobat Reader (The commercial one).
I have tried Okular, but…
Anwar
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How to save PDF annotations in a separate file?
I aim to annotate PDFs with the annotations stored separately. Okular used to do this.. but sadly no longer.
Are there any alternatives, either one that stores annotations separately, or a way to split an annotated pdf into the original pdf and a…
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