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Question regarding PDF apps.

It seems I have tried all of the major PDF annotation apps and one thing seems odd to me. It seems that there isn't one where a tool you are using remains persistent.
For example if i want to use the highlighter, the moment I am done highlighting a section the highlighter tool turns off and i have to click it again to highlight another passage.
So if i am going through a textbook or article and want to highlight passages I am interested in I have to keep clicking the highlighter icon over and over again. Its hard to imagine the developers made it this way on purpose but they all seem to do this.
Am I missing something? Is there some way to make the highlighter tool remain on?
Thanks.
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I think that's exactly how they're designed. The problem being, is that I don't think there are any Pdf apps designed to be used with the pen. For instance, lecture notes allows you to write with the pen and scroll with your finger. That's what we need in a PDF app. A Setting where a finger will not create an annotation-- but will work for scrolling and zooming-- and the pen will annotate but not scroll or zoom. Hopefully more apps will appear that are optimized for use with the pen.

Well we can import pdf files into Snote and mark them up there. You just dost habeas the typical markup tools.
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Hi,
I use Lecture Notes to put notes onto pdf files.
First I cranked up the import quality in settings.
Go to notebook overview and import pdf as new pages.
Add another layer, that way markup can be added and deleted without deleting through the pdf.
For highlighting I use a yellow custom pen and adjust to fat with tweaked alpha and softness.
Hope this helps.

arjag said:
Hi,
I use Lecture Notes to put notes onto pdf files.
First I cranked up the import quality in settings.
Go to notebook overview and import pdf as new pages.
Add another layer, that way markup can be added and deleted without deleting through the pdf.
For highlighting I use a yellow custom pen and adjust to fat with tweaked alpha and softness.
Hope this helps.
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Nice! Thanks. Much better. Have you figured out a way to import screenshots into LN? I tried last night and couldn't get it to work right.

toenail_flicker said:
Nice! Thanks. Much better. Have you figured out a way to import screenshots into LN? I tried last night and couldn't get it to work right.
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hey, that Kno textbook app that comes preloaded loads pdfs much faster than snote and the highlight tool remained persistent while flipping pages for me. You could give that a shot?

I figured out how to get the snaps into LN. Don't know why it wouldn't work last night.

mitchellvii said:
Well we can import pdf files into Snote and mark them up there. You just dost habeas the typical markup tools.
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The guide says I can import and you say S Note can import but there is no option to import on my Note 10.1 S Note. What am I missing?

When you first open the app hit the menu button then import.
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mitchellvii said:
It seems I have tried all of the major PDF annotation apps and one thing seems odd to me. It seems that there isn't one where a tool you are using remains persistent.
For example if i want to use the highlighter, the moment I am done highlighting a section the highlighter tool turns off and i have to click it again to highlight another passage.
So if i am going through a textbook or article and want to highlight passages I am interested in I have to keep clicking the highlighter icon over and over again. Its hard to imagine the developers made it this way on purpose but they all seem to do this.
Am I missing something? Is there some way to make the highlighter tool remain on?
Thanks.
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I was just messing around with ezpdf and have just discovered that you can do the above! If you look at the annotation toolbar in ezpdf, you will notice that the same tool is highlighted twice e.g. the highlight text icon, the only difference being that there is a small "c" below the tool icon.
If you click on the highlight text that has the "c" on it, you can continue to highlight different parts of the text until you click the done arrow, this feature can be used with any of the tools that have the "c" shown on the tool. You can also customise the tool bar to show only the tools that you will be interested in.

HasC said:
I was just messing around with ezpdf and have just discovered that you can do the above! If you look at the annotation toolbar in ezpdf, you will notice that the same tool is highlighted twice e.g. the highlight text icon, the only difference being that there is a small "c" below the tool icon.
If you click on the highlight text that has the "c" on it, you can continue to highlight different parts of the text until you click the done arrow, this feature can be used with any of the tools that have the "c" shown on the tool. You can also customise the tool bar to show only the tools that you will be interested in.
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Oh really? Thanks I'll try that.
Yes it works. Awesome
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mitchellvii said:
Oh really? Thanks I'll try that.
Yes it works. Awesome
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With this forum and its members, the Galaxy Note tablet and the right apps and knowing how to use them and discovering new features, the Note 10.1 for me is on a daily basis becoming the ultimate productivity tool. So far, I have not been tempted by any other tablet which is extremely rare as I constantly update my devices. At home or at work, I can't put it down as there is something useful that the note can do better or more conveniently than my other devices.

Does anyone know if there is a way to do highlights on a PDF that is not OCR'd? EZpdf and Iannotate only allow the highlighter to be used on OCR'd documents.
I have a lot of scanned documents that have handwritten notes, and I'd like to be able to highlight those things. Essentially it would be like drawing ontop of the PDF with the highlighter tool, much like the pen tool.

crazeco said:
Does anyone know if there is a way to do highlights on a PDF that is not OCR'd? EZpdf and Iannotate only allow the highlighter to be used on OCR'd documents.
I have a lot of scanned documents that have handwritten notes, and I'd like to be able to highlight those things. Essentially it would be like drawing ontop of the PDF with the highlighter tool, much like the pen tool.
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Lecture Notes will let you do that.

crazeco said:
Does anyone know if there is a way to do highlights on a PDF that is not OCR'd? EZpdf and Iannotate only allow the highlighter to be used on OCR'd documents.
I have a lot of scanned documents that have handwritten notes, and I'd like to be able to highlight those things. Essentially it would be like drawing ontop of the PDF with the highlighter tool, much like the pen tool.
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In ezpdf, you can use the freehand tool and go into its options, choose the colour you want to highlight in and then make the opacity lower and choose the pen size. This will allow you to highlight none OCR'ed documents.

Can anyone recommend a PDF app that I can use on Android to delete individual PDF pages(not PDF files, and individual pages within a PDF)

Supernote type app that exports to .doc

Hello all! I have just discovered the beauty that is supernote. I have done a good amount of searching and have yet to find a definitive answer. Is there an app like supernote that can export the file to a .doc?

Doubtful because SuperNote is a lot of drawings. I doubt there will be any software that will transcribe the drawings (from anything other than typing with the dock or OSK) into photos then properly placed within the writing area on a word file.
The reason PDF files is the option is because it doesn't require placement anywhere within a word document that's more for word processing and not drawings.
Hope this helps and that I just didn't confuse you even more haha

As a workaround, you could just copy-paste form supernote to an office suite (like the free Kingston Office or stock Polaris Office) or alternatively use an auto-sync noting app like Evernote and do the formatting on any PC connected to the web.

Have you tried OneNote? I've always used it to take notes on my laptop at work. Now I can take notes on either my tablet or my laptop and the notes stay in sync. It integrates with the other Office apps so it might do what you need.
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LectureNotes - S-Pen App with fast dev. speed

Hi,
I would like to ask if a new not yet perfect feature is working also on the gnote10.1.
Its the scroll by hoovering with button pressed.
In Setting-Input the two last options have to be enabled for it.
If you like it or have other ideas for it maybe we can collect them here to show them to the developer.
My idea would be to have the scrolling option without showing the hoovering dot and
having a sense for "flinging" then pen, so with more speed you scroll more pages....
Regards
Splotz

considering that the tab has a hover indicator built in, which is a small grey dot, i would prefer to be able to scroll without the lecture notes hover icon as well.
also, does anyone else have issues with odd strokes coming up less than straight(like a squiggly lightning bolt).

I posted to your question in the other thread.

+1

New Update, cant try it atm.
Somebody found out what changed ?

ratindahat said:
considering that the tab has a hover indicator built in, which is a small grey dot, i would prefer to be able to scroll without the lecture notes hover icon as well.
also, does anyone else have issues with odd strokes coming up less than straight(like a squiggly lightning bolt).
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I am experiencing the same thing when I am drawing. Is it a software thing ? Or is the screen bad .? Maybe a warranty issue ???

l don't think so. It's more a hardware issue but, probably not repairable. Just check this thread out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861992&highlight=ruler

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l don't think so. It's more a hardware issue but, probably not repairable. Just check this thread out:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1861992&highlight=ruler
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different problem than what i was talking about. The issue i am talking about should be filterable in software if we can figure out how.

ratindahat said:
different problem than what i was talking about. The issue i am talking about should be filterable in software if we can figure out how.
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Is there somewhere a screenshot of the issue posted?

splotz said:
Is there somewhere a screenshot of the issue posted?
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squiggly line example

@squiggly line, hardware or software issue
ratindahat said:
squiggly line example
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Looks like if the tip gets not quick enough to his "zero" position sometimes..
Did you try to change the tip or to see if something is bend or stuck so ?

Yes, tried all hardware variations including another penabled pen. I think it is a mixture of hardware and software possibly.

I received a couple of reports concerning strange `squiggled´ lines when using LectureNotes on Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 devices. So far, only this device seems effected. It is not clear what is causing this problem, but I agree with ratindahat that it is probably a mixture of hardware and software.
I just uploaded v1.16.8 into Google Play in which there is a second input `filter´, namely to optionally discard coordinates `between´ input events sent by the Android system (which are called `historical input events´ in Android terms). In the filter input settings dialog, this is the first option, as this `filter´ is applied first, and the Ramer-Douglas-Peucker filter that is available since v1.16.3 is the second option, as this filter is applied second. Actually, these `historical´ events *should* be used, and not using them rather elaborates on the symptoms and does not solve the underlying problem, but I received some positive feedback from Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 users so that you might wish to try this new `filter´.
I will try to get a hand on a Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 device to investigate this further (and hopefully find a work-around concerning the stylus button, too).

Migrating from S-Note to LectureNotes
As others in this thread I prefer LectureNotes to S-Note.
However, I've discovered LectureNotes just recently and in the meantime I have created several notes in S-Note.
What is the best way to migrate all my notes from S-Note to LectureNotes?

Export as a pdf then import pdf?

I tried that but then I have to go note by note.
Is there a way to export/import in bulk?
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@linattuale: I do not know about the export side, but you can import all pages of a PDF file at once in LectureNotes. If you wish to do more than that, you will have to create a ZIP archive similar to the one that LectureNotes creates upon backup the notebooks board or when sharing a folder, and import this ZIP archive. This is not particularly complicated, but it requires that you convert your PDF files to a set of PNG files and ZIP them together in the right fashion, which is probably better done outside the Android world in batch-style.

acadoid said:
@linattuale: I do not know about the export side, but you can import all pages of a PDF file at once in LectureNotes. If you wish to do more than that, you will have to create a ZIP archive similar to the one that LectureNotes creates upon backup the notebooks board or when sharing a folder, and import this ZIP archive. This is not particularly complicated, but it requires that you convert your PDF files to a set of PNG files and ZIP them together in the right fashion, which is probably better done outside the Android world in batch-style.
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How do you import all pages of a pdf? I can only ever seem to have it import one page.

acadoid said:
@linattuale: I do not know about the export side, but you can import all pages of a PDF file at once in LectureNotes. If you wish to do more than that, you will have to create a ZIP archive similar to the one that LectureNotes creates upon backup the notebooks board or when sharing a folder, and import this ZIP archive. This is not particularly complicated, but it requires that you convert your PDF files to a set of PNG files and ZIP them together in the right fashion, which is probably better done outside the Android world in batch-style.
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Great, thank you,
half of the job is now easy!
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Nefariouss said:
How do you import all pages of a pdf? I can only ever seem to have it import one page.
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You have to go to "Notebook overview", where you can select "Import PDF as new pages".

@Nefariouss: As linattuale wrote, you can do that in notebook overview, the resolution and margins can be adjusted in the app's import settings.

Note taking app

Is there an app that will recognize note taking and convert it to text that can be stored?

dknotty said:
Is there an app that will recognize note taking and convert it to text that can be stored?
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Look at 7note

Mikerla said:
Look at 7note
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+1 Brilliant app!

I have literally tried every note taking app that exists, and the best one by far that I have come across is LectureNotes. It does not convert handwritten to text, or resize the notes that you write like supernote (comes stock with infinity), but the format of the writing is the perfect size (regarding the page and the writing), and the features it has are out of this world. I have used it for a ton of classes. I will have a ppt running and on specific slides that instructors comment on, I can take a screenshot of it and then add it to my note page. You can make pages and pages and then export them to PDF. If you prefer text, you can type also. Seriously, check it out. It also works with an app called recorded lectures that will synchronize audio playback with your writing with the audio recorded during while you were writing.

@Turin87: Many thanks for your kind comments. In case `resize the notes´ refers to writing large on the display and getting your notes scaled down and inserted at a `cursor´ position, note that LectureNotes has an input method called `input zone´ that does that.

Of course, are you the dev? And thanks for letting me in on that. I have actually become accustomed to the format of just simply writing on the paper. It actually feels more authentic as though I was really taking notes on a real notepad. And there isnt the issue with having to wait for the resizing to happen.

Setting up my new GNote 10.1 - Iannotate Problem

Hello, I recently dumped my Ipad 2 for the Gnote 10.1 and am running into a small problem. Im a military pilot and have a TON of flight manuals, all annotated, highlighted, and bookmarked up with Iannotate for easy studying.
I have found Iannotate for Android, lacking and want to try EZPDF or Repligo (right now i have Repligo). Repligo will not open any document annotated with Iannotate. Neither will Snote. infact only the Android Iannotate and the Adobe Reader app will open them.
I cant be the only person seemingly locked into this now (i really dont want to have to re-do all of this).
Has anyone found a solution? the error I keep getting is " Error opening file. It appears to be damaged."
I have tried opening to Adobe.com, then redownloading (after a new annotation in hopes to put it in a universal Adobe format, but that didnt work).
Any Ideas?

In IAnnotate, you might try going to settings and choosing the 'email w/annotations'. Email to yourself and then open those in your new pdf reader. I use Mantano. Just an idea.
edit: I just tried that and did not have much success. I was able to open it up in IAnnotate and see all the annotations but when opening it up in EZPdf, Mantano, Moon Reader and Adobe reader, only the document showed w/o annotations. EZPdf wouldn't open it at all, saying it was corrupted.
I'm thinking it's something with IAnnotate not being able to save or flatten the annotations with the pdf/doc that is preventing it from being opened or viewed by another reader. idk. Maybe someone else has figured this out. Good question, tho.

Yeah... its only some documents. I have gotten a couple to work. so im starting to think it may only be a certain type of annotation, one that may not carry over. Havent decided on the best reader yet.. gonna check out Mantano or EZ now.. Repligo isnt all that super (it is better than Iannotate though)

You can add my vote for ezpdf
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Try flattening the annotations.
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