Hi!
One of the main reason I bought this particular tablet was to easily read and highlight in PDFs when I study. Since it got this wonderful pen I thought it would be simple to use fingers for zoom/pan etc and the pen to highlight but I've not found any app with that functionality. Of course I can go in a menu and select highlight but I want to use the stylus as an "always on highlight" marker.
ezPDF seems to do the trick but I can't tell, anyone who tried it and can tell if it works well or have any other recommendations?
Thanks in advance!
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I am looking for the same. I have to read and highlight many pdf documents. I have tried Officesuite pro, no luck, and Polaris, no luck. Adobe reader lets me highlight but its clumsy and highlighted text isn't shown if I open the pdf in another program afterwards.
You can use ezPdf with these settings:
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You can use ezPdf with these settings:
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Thanks! How is ezPDF in terms of regular viewing capabilities? Does it flow nicely or is all the animations and tools slowing it down making 1000p PDF files/books lag when turning page?
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Thanks! How is ezPDF in terms of regular viewing capabilities? Does it flow nicely or is all the animations and tools slowing it down making 1000p PDF files/books lag when turning page?
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I tried with 400p with no problem!
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I tried with 400p with no problem!
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Many thanks!
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Thanks! How is ezPDF in terms of regular viewing capabilities? Does it flow nicely or is all the animations and tools slowing it down making 1000p PDF files/books lag when turning page?
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I can confirm it works very well for big books/documents too. I use it on both Nexus 7 and Note, no performance problems.
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You can use ezPdf with these settings:
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Oh God, can't believe that the thickness option do exists in the properties menu. Dude, tks!
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I can confirm it works very well for big books/documents too. I use it on both Nexus 7 and Note, no performance problems.
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That's great to hear, thanks alot everybody
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I also use ezPDF. Great app.
So, I've tired ezPDF but I can't get the main function I requested to work. I can annotate and highlight, sure. But the program doesn't tell the difference between my finger and the pen so I can't use the pen as a constant highlighter and the finger to navigate through the pages. Can this be done using the application? This is critical, I have apps to view and annotate in PDFs that are at least as good as ezPDF, but none with that functionality.
Thanks!
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Maybe this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate&hl=en
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So, I've tired ezPDF but I can't get the main function I requested to work. I can annotate and highlight, sure. But the program doesn't tell the difference between my finger and the pen so I can't use the pen as a constant highlighter and the finger to navigate through the pages. Can this be done using the application? This is critical, I have apps to view and annotate in PDFs that are at least as good as ezPDF, but none with that functionality.
Thanks!
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I have purchased many pdf reader/editors... ezpdf, repligo, moon pdf, iannotate and so on..
The reason - I spent most of the time reading and editing pdf...
I also need to edit a lot of pdf which are scanned documents as pictures.. Ezpdf does the job best becoz of pre rendering the pages...
Over the years ezpdf has come on top.
However u cannot get the option of fully disabiling finger touch and use only stylus in any of the good pdf readers...
But the good thing is that when you use stylus, palm rejection works. The important thing is that you have to make sure the stylus is close to the screen before you rest the palm on the screen...
This works well for me... today I spent about 7 hours doing edits, the way in mentioned above and no issues..
They should work with lecturenotes developer. Lecturenotes allow making annotations using stylus while at the same time finger scrolls and controls zooming.
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Maybe this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.branchfire.iannotate&hl=en
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No that didn't do it either, but thanks anyway!
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I have purchased many pdf reader/editors... ezpdf, repligo, moon pdf, iannotate and so on..
The reason - I spent most of the time reading and editing pdf...
I also need to edit a lot of pdf which are scanned documents as pictures.. Ezpdf does the job best becoz of pre rendering the pages...
Over the years ezpdf has come on top.
However u cannot get the option of fully disabiling finger touch and use only stylus in any of the good pdf readers...
But the good thing is that when you use stylus, palm rejection works. The important thing is that you have to make sure the stylus is close to the screen before you rest the palm on the screen...
This works well for me... today I spent about 7 hours doing edits, the way in mentioned above and no issues..
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Thanks for your post! Well I'm starting to think that you are right, there is no app that allows me to use the pen as an always active highlighter.
I use LectureNotes for everything but pure books in pdf because I think it's as close to perfection as a note taking app could be. But import and handle 1000p PDFs is a no go and when flipping page is the main activity there are a lot better apps. At all lecture PDFs (10-20p) that we get LectureNotes is great, it allows you to mark and annotate in the PDF as well as easily inserting a page between if you need more space for notes.
What I want though, isn't just palm rejection. I still want to be able to switch page with my fingers. I want the program do treat my fingers and pens differently though, just like I sit with a book in one hand and a highlighter in the other when reading course literature I want to sit with my tablet in one hand and my stylus in the other. But the more programs I try, the less I think this is possible.
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They should work with lecturenotes developer. Lecturenotes allow making annotations using stylus while at the same time finger scrolls and controls zooming.
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I totally agree, make the insertion and more importantly handling when switching pages of large PDFs more easy on LectureNotes and you got exactly what I'm looking for. Of course, keeping the bookmarks and be able to use them in a simple way is important as well. And it needs a little "read mode", because when I have one finger pan enabled I cannot rest my palm on the screen without accidently pan the page and I can't get the page flipping as smooth as every PDF reader. You know the, swipe your finger over the screen and it's getting to the next or previous page.
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I wrote to the developers of both iAnnotate and ezPDF to recommend a fuller incorporation of the S-pen in annotating PDFs. Would love to see LectureNotes style ability to use the stylus to write and the finger to scroll at the same time. (Or perhaps have LectureNotes handle PDFs as more than bitmaps!). The folks from iAnnotate said they would consider it, so perhaps if more people write in and suggest it, they'll see that there is a good market for this.
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I wrote to the developers of both iAnnotate and ezPDF to recommend a fuller incorporation of the S-pen in annotating PDFs. Would love to see LectureNotes style ability to use the stylus to write and the finger to scroll at the same time. (Or perhaps have LectureNotes handle PDFs as more than bitmaps!). The folks from iAnnotate said they would consider it, so perhaps if more people write in and suggest it, they'll see that there is a good market for this.
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Great initiative! Considering the amount of Note devices both in the phone as well as the tablet versions samsung has sold and probably will be selling there should be plenty of potential users for such an app. But to me, since most of my PDFs are for a specific class that I have notes for as well having all together in LectureNotes would of course be the best solution even if I think such features in LectureNotes isn't coming any time soon.
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Adobe reader 10.4.2 allows reading and highlighting with pen it also has freehand drawing, adding text, text striking and note insertion along with other features. Tested with my note 10.1 and works great.
ezPDF works fine for me, and I do use it everyday for annotating my academic PDFs. I'm surprised how awesome it works for highlighting (are yo umaybe doing something wrong?), and I've gotten really quick at it. I have set the option to recognize palm in the settings. You can still change pages (or visualized column or whatever) either with the page button or with two fingers (holding the stylus, I find tapping on the next page button is the quickest). I often annotate and I love the possibility of freehand writing (somehow, it makes me feel like my PDFs are scanned versions of printed copies I've written on!), and for this I always use the pen (and not the pencil).
The only complaint I might have is that it takes a second to save the annotations when you change a tool, but that's fine for me.
Let me know if you need any other info!
Surely this isn't impossible, or even difficult for the devs of any pdf reader to include?
Obviously I am not a developer so I am guessing at this, palm recognition etc measure the surface area/pixels/electrical connections made simultaneously? If I am broadly correct then is it not possible to have settings that recognise palms( lets say 500 pixels or more) , fingertips(less than 50 but greater than 10 pixels) and stylus, with its considerably smaller surface area, as say 10 pixels or less?
Am I being very naive?
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Does anyone know of a PDF reader that supports displaying two pages at the same time in landscape mode (like a book or magazine). I would have thought that this was basic functionality, but I cannot find a single app to do it....
I'm REALLY looking for GoodReader for Android (an IOS app - hopefully they port to Android soon)!
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Never seen dual page layouts for pdf readers on Android. I know a lot of ebook readers and comic readers are capable of it, but none so far for pdf files.
Does really no one have an answer to this?
I know about the solution perfect viewer plus the pdf addon, but there are often crashes and its slow.
Can't say that I have one, although I can't say I have ever found a great PDF reader fir Android either.
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Mantano reader is one of the most complete readers, suited more for honeycomb than for other versions. Repligo is probably the fastest.
If I want to read a PDF with two pages at one time, I simply convert it to epub and read it with MyLibrary. Works like a charm!
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If I want to read a PDF with two pages at one time, I simply convert it to epub and read it with MyLibrary. Works like a charm!
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how does that work with magazine pdfs which have pictures spread over 2 pages??
try ezpdf reader. best i've used so far, and does 2 pages in landscape (IIRC)
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try ezpdf reader. best i've used so far, and does 2 pages in landscape (IIRC)
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I wish EZPDF Reader did 2 pages at once in landscape, but I don't belive it does (I've never found a way)....
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I wish EZPDF Reader did 2 pages at once in landscape, but I don't belive it does (I've never found a way)....
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neither did I. How did you achieve it?
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neither did I. How did you achieve it?
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yeah sorry, i just checked. doesnt look like thats possible
Man, I need to get back into programming... I've found quite a few "missing" apps like that for Android... Something that seems so basic (displaying 2 pages at once) - and there is not a single app to do it for Andoid! What an opportunity!
Hi people,
which SPen Apps are you missing and what cool things can we make with it?
Post your ideas, and I will look, what I can do
Apps I will do:
S-Calendar - A Calendar with Doodles and Text 40% done
S-Memo Widget - For every Launcher
-emptynick
A writable calendar/agenda, where you can either write with kbd or doodle with s-pen. You could start with a month view, click a day and have it zoom at full display area. Or, you could also scribble on the month view, e.g, to circle a group of days or add arrows, footnotes and the so.
And, it should also sync with Google services!
It would be a top killer app.
Ernesto de Bernardis
N900 - Galaxy Note
Sounds very interesting - thank you!
But this:
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could be a little problem, but I think I got a little approach, and will try if it works
-Christoph
Edit: anyone got a HTC Flyer? I think there are some nice sense-apps we can try to clone
Thank YOU!
Sketches could be synced to other than google calendar, maybe as one or more files attached to a gmail message sent to self!
Ernesto de Bernardis
N900 - Galaxy Note
I thought about Flickr, just upload the picture
But after that you couldnt edit the text...
Edit: Doodles to Flickr, Text in the normal calendar could be a option.
I would like to write a check list or other list with the pen and directly transfer them to SpringPad. When the SPen SDK is out I will try to write an app for that.
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I would like to write a check list or other list with the pen and directly transfer them to SpringPad. When the SPen SDK is out I will try to write an app for that.
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Its allready here
http://innovator.samsungmobile.com/down/cnts/toolSDK.detail.view.do?platformId=1&cntsId=10210
A drawing app that support brush and pressure sensitive. And an app that makes the note a real wacom tablet for the pc
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A drawing app that support brush and pressure sensitive. And an app that makes the note a real wacom tablet for the pc
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Pressure sensitive wouldnt work - hardware doesnt support that I think.
And for a nice wacom tablet its much to inaccurate
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Pressure sensitive wouldnt work - hardware doesnt support that I think.
And for a nice wacom tablet its much to inaccurate
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Yes it does support pressure sensitive ( you can try it on smemo). About the accurate, it up to the user
How many pressure levels does the S-Pen have? 2?
The pressure levels are 128 which is enough for the purpose of the device,if you feel it only has 2 and that its not accurate enough download "multitouch Visualizer 2" from the market and have a play.
The wacom app for PC is a great idea by the way
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i would like to see an app that can annotate an office application (word, excel, pp) inside the documents itself, and not only taking a snap and then annotate...
where u can choose the kbd or the pen, and save it directly in .doc .xls or wotever
I'd like an app that lets you connect your phone to your PC and use your SPen as a graphical pen in photoshop etc.
I know things like Gmote are out there, but they dont report pressure sensitivity.
A specific drawing tool would be amazing.
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I'd like an app that lets you connect your phone to your PC and use your SPen as a graphical pen in photoshop etc.
I know things like Gmote are out there, but they dont report pressure sensitivity.
A specific drawing tool would be amazing.
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Thats what Crazy Ushi was talking about
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i would like to see an app that can annotate an office application (word, excel, pp) inside the documents itself, and not only taking a snap and then annotate...
where u can choose the kbd or the pen, and save it directly in .doc .xls or wotever
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+1 for that , also ability to annotate PDF
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i would like to see an app that can annotate an office application (word, excel, pp) inside the documents itself, and not only taking a snap and then annotate...
where u can choose the kbd or the pen, and save it directly in .doc .xls or wotever
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Sounds great!
But first I make the calendar with SPen and text
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This is possible currently with repligo or ezpdf
But not with doodle made by the SPen, right?
I dont know those apps
i d'like Apps for my Mathe- Physics -and Geometrie Interrest, writeable with an sPen.
cheers
I work at Best Buy and part of our job is filling out a recommendation worksheet. I was thinking it would be cool to do this on a tablet instead of the traditional clip board and paper style approach. What is a good app for filling out PDFs?
This is the paper that I would need to fill out:
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Ezpdf might still be on the market for 25cents get it while you can
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Another one is sign my pad so there are a few options
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Repligo pdf
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I work at Best Buy and part of our job is filling out a recommendation worksheet. I was thinking it would be cool to do this on a tablet instead of the traditional clip board and paper style approach. What is a good app for filling out PDFs?
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http://filesmelt.com/dl/docDetail.pdf
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Here is a screenshot of the bottom half of your form using ezpdf and freehand input. The tool bar at the top allows you to highlight, add shapes and text and many other things, it's going very cheap on Google play right now as someone had mentioned above.
Check out the free Acrobat Reader. It does free hand writing, can change line thickness/color/opacity, add text notes, delete, etc.
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Check out the free Acrobat Reader. It does free hand writing, can change line thickness/color/opacity, add text notes, delete, etc.
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I was looking for something that my clients could sign contracts with and after trying a half dozen applications, none of them would fill the form properly and allow signing...except Acrobat Reader. Thanks much.
For anyone else looking to use this for business, etc. Thickness modifying means the signature looks better and not "too thick" on the line. All text, dates and number fields worked as well where they didn't always on other apps...
I use signmypad for my electronics repair business. it works great and is simple to use. It is a paid app though but well worth the cost
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Is there anyways to edit pdfs with polaris office? The annotation button do3snt do anything and the insert button and icon isnt there. It works fine with other files, but not with PDF.
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Is there anyways to edit pdfs with polaris office? The annotation button do3snt do anything and the insert button and icon isnt there. It works fine with other files, but not with PDF.
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this has been an ongoing problem with Polaris. Thought there'd be a fix with the second to most recent update...nooope!
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this has been an ongoing problem with Polaris. Thought there'd be a fix with the second to most recent update...nooope!
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Thanks, thought I was crazy.
Yeah adobe reader has some decent annotation and it's free. If you want something more powerful I'd go with ezpdf.
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The software the note comes with is baffling. Issues like no locked zoom in snote and broken annotation in Polaris are so glaring and readily come upon that I have to wonder just how little Samsung or the app developers actually care. It's like they made these things and then forgot all about them.
Which is crazy considering these things are what they have chosen to highlight. Snote should be constantly improving. Instead nothing gets checked off from the list of improvements and shortcomings.
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I highlight and underline, etc alot on pdf's. The Note works well for this while in Polaris but when I go to print, those annotations don't print - only the original pdf.
Is there a solution to this? (using PrinterShare premium for printing btw. It is set to print color.
Any other apps that do work?
Thanks
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You could acomplish this, more or less, with S Note. You can import PDFs, they are basically treated as multiple page-size images, then annotate them as normal (draw on the "picture"/page), and then export the note as a PDF. The exported PDF will include the annotations you made, printing that should give you the desired effect.
On a side note, I use Kno Textbooks for the same thing you are using Polaris for; I mention this to let you know that it will not help you in any way
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You could acomplish this, more or less, with S Note. You can import PDFs, they are basically treated as multiple page-size images, then annotate them as normal (draw on the "picture"/page), and then export the note as a PDF. The exported PDF will include the annotations you made, printing that should give you the desired effect.
On a side note, I use Kno Textbooks for the same thing you are using Polaris for; I mention this to let you know that it will not help you in any way
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kno looks promising but I don't have a way to export to pdf (I am using the play store version if it makes a difference). Does it require the embedded version (playing with a 2014 Note 10.1 which doesn't have it)?
Try ez-pdf reader. Seems to annotate pretty good.
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Try ez-pdf reader. Seems to annotate pretty good.
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Looks good on the screen using the default highlighter but when printed it only prints a green line, no text is legible. It looks redacted (but in green). I've also adjusted the opacity of the highlighter and tried yellow but it didn't help. I am using printershare premium. does it yours print appropriately?
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Looks good on the screen using the default highlighter but when printed it only prints a green line, no text is legible. It looks redacted (but in green). I've also adjusted the opacity of the highlighter and tried yellow but it didn't help. I am using printershare premium. does it yours print appropriately?
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If you're using ezPDF and you still have that problem, flatten you annotations.. you do that by selecting them and then press 'flatten'.
But ezPDF works fine here, without the flatten.
Polaris could have the problem because it adds the annotations as 'comments', thus only viewable if comments are turned on, something not standard when printing.
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kno looks promising but I don't have a way to export to pdf (I am using the play store version if it makes a difference). Does it require the embedded version (playing with a 2014 Note 10.1 which doesn't have it)?
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I didn't say use Kno, or export from Kno.
I said: Import pdfs into S Note, anotate them there, and export (from S Note) as pdf.
Hope that helps.
chnipsn Table
it's better to use another app such as Officesuite