Re: [O] OT: Annotating PDF & Org

[Scott Randby]

On 05/07/2013 11:02 PM, Paul Rudin wrote:
> Russell Adams <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Given the emacs and Org oriented nature of this group, I'd like to
>> know if anyone has found a good Orgish (ie: portable, text, etc) to
>> annotate PDFs?
>>
>> Features would be items like highlighting blocks, adding notes
>> (margins or "sticky" notes), and saving to either a sidecar file in a
>> text format (ala Org) or directly appending the PDF.
> 
> 
> I realise this doesn't answer your question exactly, but I use xournal
> for adding highlights and notes to pdfs on linux. It does save the notes
> in a "sidecar file", but its not a text file. There's an option to save
> a new pdf with the annotations included.

I've also used Xournal for marking up and adding notes to PDF files, but
the new PDF is blurry if the original PDF came from a LaTeX file.

Scott Randby