Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration

gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t use PDFs that much either, and often wonder who are these people who use so many PDFs, but I hear raves about Stirling PDF. I thought PDFs were like legacy gen.

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  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    What do youngstar use nowadays if it isn’t PDF? EPUB?

    I always wondered, why someone would prefere to read an EPUP instead of a PDF ! Specially Student books, cook books or any other book with images or representations.

    Yeah EPUB’s are good for long text stories without any image, but everything else should be in pdf.

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The only thing I use the PDF format for is ebooks. I just always thought PDFs were something you spammed geriatric people with to get them to fall prey to your scam. LOL Like CD/DVDs. Someone here was talking about CD/DVDs a while back, and I got to thinking, I haven’t burned a CD in at least a decade.

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  • kumi@feddit.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You don’t interact much with lawyers and government, I take it?

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    • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I try to keep lawyers, government, and other ne’er-do-wells off my farm, yes.

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• EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will look into these, do you know if they support collaborative annotations?

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  • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Stirling PDF

    docs.stirlingpdf.com/…/Read-and-Annotate/

    Read & Annotate is a full-featured PDF viewer that lets you:

    • Read PDFs in a clean, focused interface
    • Add annotations, comments, and notes
    • Highlight and markup text
    • Draw freehand on pages
    • Add shapes, arrows, and callouts
    • Insert text boxes and sticky notes
    • Collaborate by marking up documents
    • Save annotated PDFs for sharing

    Think of it as your digital PDF notepad - read, review, and mark up documents all in one place.

    It says it do. Other than that, I’ve never deployed it.

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    • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have an installation of Stirling PDF, but in my short experiment it had no ability to collaborate on the same document.

      Every edit created a new copy of the document downloaded to the user. The annotations weren’t tagged to the individual user and sending different versions of a PDF from user to user is not what I am looking for.

      Stirling is a single user software in that regards. I haven’t tested the also mentioned BentoPDF and PdfDing but I suspect them to be the same as they are all trying to be a PDF toolbox like Acrobat.

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      • irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Hmmmm…sorry to steer you wrongly. I mean, gosh it says it does all annotation and collaboration. I assumed ‘collaboration’ to mean multi-user collaboration. Hard to collaborate by yourself.

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