Highlighting pdf annotations

premed — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:40:33 +0000

In ink book you can highlight a any where and i wondering if it is possible to be able to do that in notebook.I use notebook for my med study and it would be nice to be able to highlight certain thing on a pdf. or mabe a way to make ink more transparent.

lucasburke commented

lucasburke — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:28:18 +0000

You may want to try using skim.app instead, if you haven’t already.

Eric commented

Eric — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:14:13 +0000

The ability to highlight PDF annotations is on NoteBook’s possible future features list.

Cathy commented

Cathy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 00:31:11 +0000

Ditto request for me. Highlighting should be pretty basic.

mike.caplan commented

mike.caplan — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:11:23 +0000

I would love to see the ability to highlight and import the pages directly with the background of the page as (legal) or whatever you select, I hate looking at white paper.

If notebook could do that, the program would be so much stronger and have huge abilities for those of us who do tons of research!

RLM2p commented

RLM2p — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 04:32:09 +0000

Ditto. I love Notebook – but we need to be able to highlight PDFs. This is crucial!!

thanks.

Rob

PS - Lucas: What is skim.app?? Thx

Clark Goble commented

Clark Goble — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 04:57:38 +0000

Skim is a bit overrated. I tried to like it but got frustrated quickly. It does do highlighting though.

If highlighting is supported it’d be nice to support highlighting of text as text such as both Preview and Acrobat do. i.e. drag across text the way one can with regular notes.

One thing in addition to highlighting that would be useful is optionally scaling the PDF so the text is larger and more legible.

lucasburke commented

lucasburke — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 20:27:56 +0000

Skim is basically an application for highlighting and annotating PDFs. I don’t know how it could be “overrated” — I’m sure it works for some people and doesn’t work for others.

One thing that makes it convenient for using with Notebook is that it can package the PDF and the highlighting in one file that can be dragged into a Notebook as an attachment. I then make a few short notes about the attachment below it in the outline. I have found this to be a convenient way of keeping track of a lot of materials.

Oh, also, if you want to find it, type “skim.app” into google and it is the first result.

Best,
Lucas.

Silky commented

Silky — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:15:23 +0000

I don’t see the point of skim. You can annotate and highlight PDFs in preview too.:D

jem commented

jem — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:45:17 +0000

Skim has better tools for annotating and highlighting but more importantly you can do this without changing the PDF … so you always have a pristine copy of the PDF

Nanotech commented

Nanotech — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:13:19 +0000

I don’t see how skim’s highlight is that good in the first place. For one thing, if the pdf doesn’t have the text recognized or is kind of “fuzzy” when it comes to formatting there will be problems for highlighting. I hold onenote in high regard when it comes to this, since you can either highlight like skim (pretty much like text selection), or you can manually highlight (which is kind of just like drawing a yellow marker line on the document). I would be very happy if notebook had both highlighting functionality in future releases.

MedSchoolSucks commented

MedSchoolSucks — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:04:32 +0000

SOLUTION

I know this thread is old but just in case anyone else has this issue, I’ve found a solution.

1. On the “Ink” Icon select “Sketch” (you need to click and hold for the menu to pop up)

2. Click on the “Colors” icon

3. On the “Ink” Icon, select “Set Pen Width and Color”

4. The color box should now have an “Opacity” option as well as a “Pen Width” option as well as a color wheel to change the color of your sketch

5. Lower the opacity, increase the size of your pen and use it as a highlighter!!!

P.S. Ink and Colors are located in the Toolbar. If you don’t see these, go into “View”—> “Customize Toolbar”. And just for reference, I’m running v3.0.14