Some good options... I got Jarnal Working and going to test out pdf edit..
Annotating PDFs
A new Ubuntu user asked me the other day how to annotate PDFs on her system. She does a lot of collaboration and hadn't yet found a non-Windows way to annotate PDFs.
I tried a few tools this morning and by far the easiest one to use is Jarnal. This one is Java based so you'll need java installed on your system. (FreeBSD users can download Java packages from the Foundation and PC-BSD users can install the Java PBIs.) Ubuntu instructions appear to be here though I have not tried them myself.
Once Java is installed, create a directory for the Jarnal files; I created a subdirectory of my home directory:
mkdir ~/jarnal && cd jarnal
I then downloaded the zip file to that subdirectory , unzipped it and set the bash script as executable:
unzip jarnal-install.zip
chmod +x jarnalannotate.sh
BSD users: bash isn't installed by default but can be installed with pkg_add -r bash. The path to bash will be incorrect in the script. Edit that file to change the first line to read #! /usr/local/bin/bash. If you're not sure where bash is installed on your Linux system, which bash will give you the path.
Now, run the script with:
./jarnalannotate.sh
While annotating itself is very easy, figuring out how to open and save the PDF wasn't as intuitive. To open an existing PDF, use File->Open Background. Select the Text tool (black T icon on far right), click where you want to type with your mouse, and start typing your annotation. When you are finished and want to save your file, use File->Export->Export to PDF.
TomKa writes: Take a look at this.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PDFedit
I found it vesy usefull.
1 comment:
just what i was looking for. thanks!
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