Support for PDF annotations

Rooz · April 8, 2015, 11:39am

What I meant was to open the PDF on the web-based version of Adobe acrobat DC.

stefan · April 8, 2015, 12:00pm

Where do I find this web-based version? We have subscription to Creative Cloud here at Paperpile. I just downloaded the new Acrobat and found a link to the Document Cloud on the web. I can upload a PDF but only get a very rudimentary viewer and I can’t figure out how to edit the PDF.

Rooz · April 8, 2015, 12:22pm

I totally agree. Based on the advertisement, I assumed that you get the whole package on the web browser. I just double checked and as you said, it seems that the annotation/comments is not an option on the web viewer. You might want to check with them to see if they have any plan to address this in recent future.

Side note, the http://www.metpadf.com/ link doesn’t open. And, could I get access to the bet version of Paperpile annotation?

stefan · April 8, 2015, 12:26pm

Sorry there was a typo in the link:

http://www.metapdf.com

I’ve added you to our beta group. You should see the thread in your list with all the instructions. It’s the very first beta so it’s still crude but we should have a much more complete version out in the next couple of weeks.

Rooz · April 8, 2015, 12:41pm

Thank you-

Alireza · April 9, 2015, 12:42am

Hi Stephan, Please add me as a tester of annotations feature.

stefan · April 9, 2015, 12:14pm

I’ve added you.

Varun_Agrawal · April 10, 2015, 1:46am

Hi Stefan, please add me to the beta testers.

stefan · April 12, 2015, 1:31pm

Sorry, I missed you the past couple of days. I’ve added you now. Looking forward to your feedback!

Vilim_Stih · April 13, 2015, 11:02am

Hello,
Could I also test the annotation beta?

KWatson · April 20, 2015, 11:28pm

I’d like to be added to the beta group if possible.

stefan · April 21, 2015, 7:11pm

@Vilim_Stih and @KWatson: I’ve added you both.

tiflove · April 22, 2015, 2:19pm

Can I test the annotation beta as well?

phytat · April 22, 2015, 3:49pm

Hi @stefan please could you add me to the beta group so I can test annotation beta?

Thanks, Alex

stefan · April 22, 2015, 9:40pm

@tiflove and @phytat: I’ve added you. You should now see the beta testing threads with instructions in your main list. Looking forward to your feedback!

DBulczak · April 24, 2015, 8:28pm

Can I get an invite too? Would be great

Shai_Pilosof · April 26, 2015, 2:19pm

Hopefully, these annotations will also be visible by Adobe Reader! With my previous experience with Mendeley (which I will never go back to!) it was very annoying to annotate in Mendeley and then when reading with Adobe nothing was there…

stefan · April 26, 2015, 3:21pm

Yes. Please have a look at https://www.metapdf.com for a preliminary list of features. You will notice we point out standards compliance quite a bit because we think it’s very important.

Here’s the relevant part, you see the same annotations in Adobe and MetaPDF (that’s how we call our new PDF annotator)

Shai_Pilosof · April 27, 2015, 5:29am

looks great! Can I beta-test?

Jennifer_Ashton · May 3, 2015, 4:15pm

Hi, @stefan, Could you please add me to the beta group so I can test annotation beta?

Many thanks, Jennifer