Comment on Looking for PDF collaboration

• irmadlad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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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      • EarMaster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I am thankful for any input. Maybe it helps someone else looking for a similar thing.

        I think the collaborative part means sending PDFs from user to user and maintaining the ability to edit annotations. That may work for many use cases - a lot of businesses may be fine with that when email is still the communication medium of choice.

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