Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by perrys » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 9:04 AM UTC

Draw on a PDF Online
goodannotations.com

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by andrewshadura » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 1:04 PM UTC

Also https://www.pdfescape.com/

Unfortunately, neither of the two is free software.

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by black_puppydog » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 1:35 PM UTC

Content warning: strong language

I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus.

The results are devastating... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible).

I surmise that the "upload your pdf and do the editing in the cloud" market only exists because the user story on windows is utter shit. It is so much worse than on debian, running on the same hardware. This includes the touch screen and stylus handling, font rendering, UI, responsiveness, essentially everything that people always claim linux is so bad at.

I'm not comparing it to apples's golden cage of course, they may have amazing pdf editing but I'm not interested.

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by bertman » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:08 PM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #3

Content warning: strong language I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus. The results are devastating ... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible). I…

>It is so much worse than on debian

I feel you. What DID you end up using on Debian then?

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by itronitron » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #3

Content warning: strong language I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus. The results are devastating ... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible). I…

If you haven't tried Microsoft Edge then it's worth a shot. Curious to know if you have used it and how it compared to other applications.

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by twsted » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:42 PM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #3

Content warning: strong language I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus. The results are devastating ... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible). I…

> I'm not comparing it to apples's golden cage of course, they may have amazing pdf editing...

Actually yes

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by perrys » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:48 PM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #3

Content warning: strong language I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus. The results are devastating ... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible). I…

Hey! Your absolutely right, Apple has got down an awesome native PDF editor & annotator and that Windows do not have their act together for native apps.

The direction Good Annotations is taking however is to be able to do all of that collaboratively with other users. The stuff you see today is hopefully the first step.

Device compatability is obviously a tough one because there are so many different devices out there creating alot of edge cases. At the moment we're following the data to get things off the ground. Chrome & Desktop. We will be looking at touch support in the near future

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by perrys » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:49 PM UTC

itronitron wrote: post #5

black_puppydog wrote: post #3

Content warning: strong language I literally just spent an hour trying out different apps on a windows pc to annotate a scientific paper (standard arxiv paper) with a stylus. The results are devastating ... Every app is so broken, hidpi isn't there, font rendering is crap, touch on windows is essentially unusable, many apps didn't even let me un-fullscreen without going back to desktop mode (this is a convertible). I…

If you haven't tried Microsoft Edge then it's worth a shot. Curious to know if you have used it and how it compared to other applications.

Does Microsoft Edge have annotation tools built in?

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by perrys » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:49 PM UTC

andrewshadura wrote: post #2

Also https://www.pdfescape.com/ Unfortunately, neither of the two is free software.

Good Annotations is completely free :)

Re: Draw on a PDF Online

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Post by azabua » Wed, Oct 28, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

perrys wrote: post #9

andrewshadura wrote: post #2

Also https://www.pdfescape.com/ Unfortunately, neither of the two is free software.

Good Annotations is completely free :)

You can implement your own with canvas and PDFjs ... I did something back in the day with latex and java (yikes) ... but anything is possible ... now I would try socket.io whiteboard example so many could destroy the same PDF