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Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
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Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
@scholar_farmer Have you checked out PDF-XChange Editor? It comes with a full feature set similar to Adobe but without a shitty forced subscription (the price for the perpetual license is very affordable compared to Adobe), and of course, you can use it offline as you please. I switched a few months ago from Adobe and have zero regrets.
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@scholar_farmer Have you checked out PDF-XChange Editor? It comes with a full feature set similar to Adobe but without a shitty forced subscription (the price for the perpetual license is very affordable compared to Adobe), and of course, you can use it offline as you please. I switched a few months ago from Adobe and have zero regrets.
@simone257 thanks, I'll check it out!
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Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
@scholar_farmer the best alternative I've found so far (running on #Fedora #Linux) is actually #Firefox, it has a great PDF reading tool, and its PDF editing and annotation features are also quite okay. And I'm already using it as my web browser anyway.
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@scholar_farmer the best alternative I've found so far (running on #Fedora #Linux) is actually #Firefox, it has a great PDF reading tool, and its PDF editing and annotation features are also quite okay. And I'm already using it as my web browser anyway.
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@scholar_farmer it does, but to be fair I don't use that feature on a regular basis, usually I only need PDF reading, signing and filling out forms, which all work fine for me. But the annotation feature looks okay, so try it and maybe tell me what you think about it
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@scholar_farmer it does, but to be fair I don't use that feature on a regular basis, usually I only need PDF reading, signing and filling out forms, which all work fine for me. But the annotation feature looks okay, so try it and maybe tell me what you think about it
@moewe will do!
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Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
I'm using Okular and I like it.
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I'm using Okular and I like it.
@emma_cogdev Thanks, I'll give it a test
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Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
@scholar_farmer I mostly use Okular for annotations and such. I'm not sure, but it's maybe Linux only.
An alternative, if this is to read and annotate academic papers, is Zotero. It's mostly to keep a database of your papers, but it also has a pretty decent annotation tool for PDFs. -
@scholar_farmer I mostly use Okular for annotations and such. I'm not sure, but it's maybe Linux only.
An alternative, if this is to read and annotate academic papers, is Zotero. It's mostly to keep a database of your papers, but it also has a pretty decent annotation tool for PDFs.@pablo_armur isn't zotero in the cloud? I tried it back in the day (a very very long time ago) and it was spending too much time writing back across my too-narrow bandwidth. But yes, zotero would be useful at work, thanks for the suggestion
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@pablo_armur isn't zotero in the cloud? I tried it back in the day (a very very long time ago) and it was spending too much time writing back across my too-narrow bandwidth. But yes, zotero would be useful at work, thanks for the suggestion
@scholar_farmer I *think* Zotero can work only locally... But not 100% sure (I do have it synced between two computers)
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@scholar_farmer I mostly use Okular for annotations and such. I'm not sure, but it's maybe Linux only.
An alternative, if this is to read and annotate academic papers, is Zotero. It's mostly to keep a database of your papers, but it also has a pretty decent annotation tool for PDFs.Okular has support for Windows and MacOS, in addition to Linux.
It's a pretty versatile application, in my view.
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Okular has support for Windows and MacOS, in addition to Linux.
It's a pretty versatile application, in my view.
@jrredho @scholar_farmer OK, I didn't know that, thanks for the clarification!
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Query:
What do you recommend for PDF reading that allows highlighting and annotation -- for a PC? Yes, I'm an old fogey and have relied on pen-and-ink until now. And yes, it's probably time to move digital. But no, the Adobe world is NOT an answer. And cloud-services are a no-go; I'm on rural internet
Suggestions?
@scholar_farmer You probably already have everything you need in Microsoft Edge or Firefox's built-in PDF viewer-both let you highlight and annotate for free, with no cloud or Adobe required.
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