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irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day agoStirling 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.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
EarMaster@lemmy.world 1 day 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.