PDF bookmarking and highlights

How do you add bookmarks and/or highlights to a pdf in DTTG. I can’t believe that such basic pdf features are not available so I am probably missing something. I have tried using another app to annotate a DTTG doc (PDFexpert, Documents) but they import the doc and don’t modify the original doc in place. I also don’t see a way to list the existing highlights (made before importing into DTTG…?

Update: kept searching and found that Goodreader can edit in place and is indeed a good pdf reader that can make bookmarks

As has been discussed many times, PDF bookmarks are not standardized so each application implements their own proprietary support. This means bookmarks in one application aren’t necessarily available in another application.

That being said, of course you can annotate a PDF in DEVONthink To Go and this has been possible for years now. Tap the Edit button while viewing a PDF and you’ll see the tools available. Here is an example on an iPhone…

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Thanks Bluefrog. I had indeed found the annotation tools but could not find a listing of those annotations or bookmarks. How am I to find them back again. Sorry to be perhaps ignorant of those functions but I can’t find them. I looked in the documentation.

At this time, there isn’t an Annotations inspector like there is in DEVONthink on the Mac. But you can see Annotated pages via…

Ah, got it. Thanks