Question regarding Annotations

[JamieHatzis]

I see that DT 3 uses annotation in two senses…the traditional sense (ie notes, mark ups) and then in another sense which I really don’t understand and the handbook does not really go into with much depth. I need some usage scenarios for this latter understanding.

Also, returning to the original sense of annotation, am I correct in understanding that if I have a PDF in DT3, that I open in say acrobat to annotate (ie highlight) those annotations will not appear in DT3 in the inspector? I have yet to see any. So I assume that only annotations made in DT3 can be seen in the inspector.

[BLUEFROG]

What handbook are you referring to?

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PDF Annotations are covered in Help > Documentation > Documents > PDFs > Editing Bar and Annotations

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Annotation files are covered in Help > Documentation > Inspectors > Annotations & Reminders

They are also widely discussed in these forums.

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Assuming you’re opening the PDFs from within DEVONthink, I would try opening the same annotated PDF in Preview.

PS: I would never make an assumption that Acrobat’s features will be usable in other applications. Adobe made the PDF specification and does many things that are only possible in Acrobat.

[rkaplan]

See here:

Annotations vs Annotations?

There are lots of ways it can be used - it all depends on what you use DT3 for In one of my databases, I use annotations to create bookmarks to locations in a large document that I frequently refer to In another database, I use annotations to mark key parts of a large document before I sit down to write a consulting report with my opinions on the document In another database, I use annotations to give editing advice to my staff as they progress through writing/creating a new document There …