One tool that doesn't seem to get the attention it deserves is Marginnote. I spent a bit more money than I should have on it, but in terms of reading, annotating, and making notes from PDF's I don't think there's anything else even close. I particularly love the ability to create a mindmap, flashcards for spaced repetition, and native export to evernote. https://www.marginnote.com/
My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
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Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#62I just evaluated Evince, Okular, Foxit, and Acrobat for annotating PDFs. My particular use case is to annotate emails, spreadsheet, etc., and merge them as exhibits into a legal brief. After annotation, the other programs can export the original or it export the annotation layers but it could not give you a PDF with both the original and the annotations merged into one layer. This was a deal breaker. With Okular you…
xournal does this.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#63If only there was tool which would render my annotations in TeX, it'd make reading papers so simpler. Meanwhile, Okular
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
What kind of cross-platform features does Electron provide that Okular does not have?
I just told you: a friggin installer . All cross-platorm features are inconsequential if you can't easily distribute the application on multiple platforms in the first place.
Here in linux land we don't give a damn about installers. We prefer to install and update all software via a single interface.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#65For those wanting to try okular on macos, it seems easier to setup via homebrew ( https://brew.sh ). The steps are:
$ brew tap kde-mac/kde
$ brew install cpanminus (needed for KDE-mac/kde/kf5-kdoctools)
$ cpanm URI
$ brew install okular
Then go make coffee while things compile.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#66On Emacs use pdftools. Qed.
I love emacs but pdftools is kind of meh. You need it for pdf tools and a different addon to read epubs that works differently.
Then it uses a lot of memory, scrolls a little slow, and doesn't remember your place in a document.
Zathura remembers your place and reads epubs and pdfs while using less ram. Conversion between epubs and pdf seems to preserve the text but often results in ugly docs that are less pleasant to read so a good solution needs to support both.
I would love someone to improve document reading to the point where I COULD use emacs for document reading.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#67I just evaluated Evince, Okular, Foxit, and Acrobat for annotating PDFs. My particular use case is to annotate emails, spreadsheet, etc., and merge them as exhibits into a legal brief. After annotation, the other programs can export the original or it export the annotation layers but it could not give you a PDF with both the original and the annotations merged into one layer. This was a deal breaker. With Okular you…
I just tried in Evince and you can print an annotated document to flatten it just fine.
Can you show me how?
I'm using Document Viewer aka Evince 3.28.2 on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) and I don't see an option to print the PDF with annotations.
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just tried in Evince and you can print an annotated document to flatten it just fine.
Can you show me how? I'm using Document Viewer aka Evince 3.28.2 on CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (Core) and I don't see an option to print the PDF with annotations.
It's just the normal print option. Fill out the form, Save As with the form filled out (not sure if this is necessary), print in the main menu
Re: My New Favorite Tool for Reviewing PDFs: Okular
#69Yes yes yes and I am very thankful to the KDE on Windows builds programs.