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From: Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: OT: Annotating PDF & Org
Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 13:19:24 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <518BDA9C.3050802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bo8mb2cz.fsf@no-fixed-abode.cable.virginmedia.net>

On 05/07/2013 11:02 PM, Paul Rudin wrote:
> Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com> 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

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-09 17:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-06 13:39 OT: Annotating PDF & Org Russell Adams
2013-05-06 13:53 ` Vincent Beffara
2013-05-06 13:55   ` Russell Adams
2013-05-07 21:36 ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2013-05-07 21:39   ` Russell Adams
2013-05-07 22:44     ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2013-05-13 23:52     ` Ramon Diaz-Uriarte
2013-05-08  3:02 ` Paul Rudin
2013-05-09 17:19   ` Scott Randby [this message]
2013-05-09 17:04 ` Karl Voit

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