From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Randby Subject: Re: OT: Annotating PDF & Org Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 13:19:24 -0400 Message-ID: <518BDA9C.3050802@gmail.com> References: <20130506133907.GU22683@cardamom.adamsinfoserv.com> <87bo8mb2cz.fsf@no-fixed-abode.cable.virginmedia.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:52544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaUV7-0008ED-Mg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 13:19:31 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaUV6-0002v7-3V for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 13:19:29 -0400 Received: from mail-ia0-x230.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c02::230]:49031) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UaUV5-0002ub-U7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 09 May 2013 13:19:28 -0400 Received: by mail-ia0-f176.google.com with SMTP id j38so3302324iad.35 for ; Thu, 09 May 2013 10:19:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.111] (cpe-24-165-203-246.neo.res.rr.com. [24.165.203.246]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id qs4sm5587467igb.10.2013.05.09.10.19.25 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 09 May 2013 10:19:26 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87bo8mb2cz.fsf@no-fixed-abode.cable.virginmedia.net> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 05/07/2013 11:02 PM, Paul Rudin wrote: > Russell Adams writes: > >> Given the emacs and Org oriented nature of this group, I'd like to >> know if anyone has found a good Orgish (ie: portable, text, etc) to >> annotate PDFs? >> >> Features would be items like highlighting blocks, adding notes >> (margins or "sticky" notes), and saving to either a sidecar file in a >> text format (ala Org) or directly appending the PDF. > > > I realise this doesn't answer your question exactly, but I use xournal > for adding highlights and notes to pdfs on linux. It does save the notes > in a "sidecar file", but its not a text file. There's an option to save > a new pdf with the annotations included. I've also used Xournal for marking up and adding notes to PDF files, but the new PDF is blurry if the original PDF came from a LaTeX file. Scott Randby