PDF Annotator & Adobe Acrobat
Posted by Olga Kits under Tablet PC Software , PDF related
I’ve had PDF Annotator on my Tablet PC for about 6 months. I stopped using it because there were issues with it (Lynette really never took to it (yet)), like hogging the memory etc. Still, given that Adobe had failed to produce anything reasonable for inking I was happy with it and hoped it would develop further. The other problem is that I do at times lapse into printing off journal articles. So the combination of these two led me to ignore PDF Annotator for a little while. I decided today to see how things are coming along. I upgraded my version and opened up a pdf and things are looking ok. I have two immediate wishes I can think of right now:
- The ability to have some kind of bookmarking feature so I can easily figure out where in my 313 page document I bothered to highlight or make notations. Preventing me from looking through the entire document again looking for annotations would be very useful
- I also would like to have the option, like in Adobe Acrobat, to use the dragging tool (the little hand) to move from one page to the next rather than clicking (see in pic below) or using the scrolling wheel on the side of the TC1100.
What about Adobe? I have Adobe Acrobat Standard 6. It can bookmark notes and give me one click access to the page and its annotation. The Adobe marking tool is a sad imitation of inking. Both programmes have something that is useful. My happy understanding is that the developer of PDF Annotator is working on the bookmarking feature.
The continuing problem I seem to have with Acrobat is that it crashes way too much and is basically a memory hog.
October 10th, 2007 17:33
I have a MAJOR problem with Pdf Annotator. I just lost about 5 hours of work on an important document because Vista crashed while I was working on a document, and PDF Annotator does NOT MAKE AUTOSAVE backups. This function simply does not exist. I am amazed and perplexed - how can a professional editing software suite NOT HAVE AN AUTOSAVE feature????? I tried looking through all the options, and all the help files - nope, simply no mention of it. I have written to them and I am thinking of demanding my money back - though this will not compensate me for 5 hours of lost work. Perhaps I should ask them for 5 hours of my time priced at $50 per hour. This is completely ridiculous - how can they have managed to omit such a basic feature in a professional editing program????
March 10th, 2008 14:28
PDE Annotator is not a “professional editing software suite.” If it were, it would cost hundreds of dollars, like other “professional” software packages. You need money to pay programmers to add these features (and autosave would likely require a major rearchitecting to get more efficient PDF file format handling.