At work I was nominated to set up the new Mac system today, and unfortunately, I know jack shit about them. So, right now, I'm trying to find a program that is similar to the Windows PDF Annotator program. I need a good program that provides the ability to write on and save annotations to PDF files that works for a Mac. For all of you who do use Macs, any recommendations?
Checked that. It's just remakes of Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc. No real PDF annotator program. Everywhere I've looked so far just says "Use Preview", which my boss explicitly said "No, I tried that and it blows."
hey, try this. Annotating A PDF The default Mac OS X document opener (and also a PDF reader) – Preview, has an underused feature called Annotate. This ability allows users to slightly modify, including adding notes, ordinary PDF documents. While completely editing the PDF is still out of the question, it’s possible to fill in any PDF form using the annotation feature. When you open PDF with Preview, you’ll quickly see the “Annotate†icon in the toolbar. This feature is also accessible from the “Tools > Annotate†menu. Clicking the icon will open up the Annotate bar at the bottom of the window. There are several annotation tools available for you to use. You can add: Arrow (Command + Control + A) Oval (Command + Control + O) Rectangle (Command + Control + R) Text (Command + Control + T) Note (Command + Control + N) and Link (Command + Control + L) You can also modify the text by giving it: Highlight (Command + Control + H) Strike through (Command + Control + S) and Underline (Command + Control + U) After annotating the PDF, you can select and view those annotations quickly by opening the sidebar and choose the annotation view. And don’t forget to save the document if you want to keep your annotations. this was not written by me, but i have tried it on a few of my pdf's and it works great. Hope it does what you want.
I use PDF Office by Ovis at work. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/PDF/pdfOffice.shtml Does what is says on the tin, creates editable fields on pdf forms.
Well, I tried Preview, but it's not really what I'm looking for. I need something that allows for freehand annotating with a pen and tablet screen. Preview doesn't really allow that. I'll check out PDF Office tomorrow
*dusting this off* Still trying to find a decent program that allows me to utilize a Wacom tablet's pen function to be able to write on PDF files. Any ideas?
If you're looking for a paid piece of software, you could try PDFpen: http://smilesoftware.com/PDFpen/ or PDFStudio: http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/index.html If you're looking for a free option, how about Jarnal ( http://mac.softpedia.com/get/Multimedia/Jarnal.shtml ) or Skim ( http://skim-app.sourceforge.net/ )? They're less user-friendly, but I believe they do what you're looking for: freehand PDF annotation.
Ended up using PDF Pen. However, once I figured all this out and got it all set up, they let me go. How nice of them, right? It worked out great for them though, so I appreciate the help in finding it.
