# Which PDF apps are confirmed working with "open-in-place"?

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**Category:** DEVONthink To Go\
**Created:** [May 1, 2021, 8:28am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197 "2021-05-01T08:28:17Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 9:09am UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/21 "2021-08-15T09:09:25Z")

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Apologies for resurrecting – but still no joy with Goodreader.

Using Goodreader is one of my cornerstone apps, as it remains one of the very few annotating apps (if not only?) that allows quick switching between numerous (+7) highlighting colours.  
Any progress on this, or must I follow-up with the Goodreader people?

In the interim – is the “fix” to rather copy into Goodreader, annotate, copy back – and then delete the initial (un-annotated) original?

Would appreciate any suggestions!

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**Author:** ![BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/bluefrog/32/135_2.png) [@BLUEFROG](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/BLUEFROG)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:24pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/22 "2021-08-15T14:24:49Z")

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You’d have to check with the GoodReader people. _(I don’t think any of us have it in here.)_

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**Author:** ![Cassady](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/cassady/32/8320_2.png) [@Cassady](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/Cassady)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:27pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/23 "2021-08-15T14:27:12Z")

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Thanks Jim. Will do – it was this part, that had me ask:

> [@eboehnisch](#):
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> We hope that the next release of DEVONthink To Go addresses the error shown by GoodReader. Please let us know if it doesn’t for you.

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**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 2:36pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/24 "2021-08-15T14:36:32Z")

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No worries and I hope my response didn’t feel brusque or snarky. 😕

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**Author:** ![eboehnisch](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/user_avatar/discourse.devontechnologies.com/eboehnisch/32/38699_2.png) [@eboehnisch](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/u/eboehnisch)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2021, 6:07pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/25 "2021-08-15T18:07:27Z")

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> [@Cassady](#):
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> Will do – it was this part, that had me ask:

So opening PDFs for editing in GoodReader still doesn’t work despite our changes a while ago, so I read this correctly? We don’t know if the Problem is on our side or GoodReader’s, but are eager to fix it if it’s on our side.

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**Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/26 "2021-08-18T12:22:47Z")

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@eboehnisch The same is unfortunately also true for PDF Expert. Opening works, but changes are not synced back to DevonThink, unlike when using e.g. the Highlights app.

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**Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/27 "2021-08-18T12:25:36Z")

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> [@AW2307](#):
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> The same is unfortunately also true for PDF Expert. Opening works, but changes are not synced back to DevonThink, unlike when using e.g. the Highlights app.

This is a known issue and Readdle confirmed it’s an issue on their side. They might work on it eventually.

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**Post date:** [August 20, 2021, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.devontechnologies.com/t/which-pdf-apps-are-confirmed-working-with-open-in-place/64197/28 "2021-08-20T17:19:32Z")

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I tested this today and want to report something I noticed:  
Goodreader now actually does sync back the changes made to DTTG! I believe this was not the case when I checked last time some months ago. However, after a while there is the same error message that the file was edited outside of Goodreader and needs to be reopened.

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