software for annotating documents

Hey folks,

Re student printing, it seems to me that the problem is that there is
no good way to annotate documents on-screen. I tried Skim[1] but
found it vastly inferior to paper. A limited device like the Kindle
would be even worse.

Is there ANY desktop software that's actually good for taking notes on
a document?

-SS

[1] http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
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jmayer2 years ago

software for annotating documents

Depends on the document. I don't know of any tool that works with all
doc types.

In MS Word, you have a powerful comment feature.

In PDFs (created by Adobe), you have a great comment feature, but it
is limited to PDFs created by Adobe. This is a HUGE problem since it
is impossible to generate a PDF that allows annotation in the free PDF
reader unless you use Adobes creator's tools (not open source tools).
This really pisses me off BTW.

Some ebook reading software has annoation capability, but nothing that
works across all platforms (PC, kindle, iphone, blackberry, etc etc).

Readers that work across all platforms is just happening. Annotation
across all copies of the same doc is a dream. I think the best bet
for the future is Google Docs - think Google Wave as an online/offline
reader.

John

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Stuart Sierra <ssierr@law.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Re student printing, it seems to me that the problem is that there is
> no good way to annotate documents on-screen.  I tried Skim[1] but
> found it vastly inferior to paper.  A limited device like the Kindle
> would be even worse.
>
> Is there ANY desktop software that's actually good for taking notes on
> a document?
>
> -SS
>
> [1] http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
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don.zhou2 years ago

RE: software for annotating documents

John,

To annotate pdf without the adobe product, have you tried pdf-exhange viewer? http://www.docu-track.com/ But this is not one document shared by a group. For a group project, I agree that Googledocs is just beautiful. Plus, now you can share the whole folder, instead of individual documents.

Don Zhou
William Mitchell College of Law

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Depends on the document. I don't know of any tool that works with all
doc types.

In MS Word, you have a powerful comment feature.

In PDFs (created by Adobe), you have a great comment feature, but it
is limited to PDFs created by Adobe. This is a HUGE problem since it
is impossible to generate a PDF that allows annotation in the free PDF
reader unless you use Adobes creator's tools (not open source tools).
This really pisses me off BTW.

Some ebook reading software has annoation capability, but nothing that
works across all platforms (PC, kindle, iphone, blackberry, etc etc).

Readers that work across all platforms is just happening. Annotation
across all copies of the same doc is a dream. I think the best bet
for the future is Google Docs - think Google Wave as an online/offline
reader.

John

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Stuart Sierra <ssierr@law.columbia.edu> wrote:
> Hey folks,
>
> Re student printing, it seems to me that the problem is that there is
> no good way to annotate documents on-screen.  I tried Skim[1] but
> found it vastly inferior to paper.  A limited device like the Kindle
> would be even worse.
>
> Is there ANY desktop software that's actually good for taking notes on
> a document?
>
> -SS
>
> [1] http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/
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