Academics work with a lot of PDF files—journal articles, scanned ILL materials, and, increasingly, historical documents available through archives such as Google Books. After my first few posts here ...

Two weeks ago I asked ProfHacker readers, “How Do You Organize and Annotate PDFs?”, and you rose to the challenge. I can’t recount the entire discussion here (though it’s well worth reading through in ...

If you flip back through your course notes, you’ll see that last week we explored using Preview to edit and annotate images. But as I explained in that lesson, Preview has powers beyond images. It’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Way back in the early 1990s, Adobe released the Portable Document Format (PDF). Ever since, PDFs have been a key tool in getting ...

Staying organized as an entrepreneur is hard enough. You have thousands of documents, projects, tasks, and jobs to oversee all the time, the last thing you want is to have your time wasted. And yet, ...

Google’s push to optimize its first-party apps on tablets continues with Drive for Android adding the ability to annotate PDFs using a stylus or finger. You will be able to “use your finger or a ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Annotating PDFs on a tablet is a widely-held dream in the suit community, and now Adobe’s making it a little ...

I have a wacom tablet, and I need to review a bunch of PDF manuscripts for colleagues abroad. <BR><BR>Seems the smart thing to do would be to superimpose hand-written notes and sketches on the PDFs ...

The version of Preview in OS X 10.5 has some nice additions to its 10.4 predecessor, including more annotation abilities for PDFs. What I didn’t know, until very recently, is that you can also ...