In 1.7 20120726 merging scribbles and annotations with pdf works erratically. Sometimes it works as normal but sometimes it does not work at all - no output file is produced! It also happened to me that an output file was produced but no scribbles/annotations were merged with it. I tested this with a dozen files I have on my reader and that I had annotated previously to find that about one fifth of them is affected. Exporting annotations to text file does not seem to be affected.
Now, the strangest bit is that the same file, uploaded fresh to m92 with a new file name and annotated anew,
can be succesfully merged!
On the other hand, if the filename of the affected document is changed and then
the same file with
old name is re-uploaded to the device, annotations and scribbles can be seen in the newly uploaded file (they are lost in the old one*) but still cannot be merged.
It follows from this that the bug is related to boox, not to the annotated file.
Since I can't figure what is causing this (database failure? bug in software?) it means annotations/scribbles cannot be relied on anymore. It's probably not just me that they only make sense if they can be transferred to PC. This is really upsetting.
* Changing the file name of an annotated document makes annotations and scribbles disappear - they cannot be seen anymore in the document with a changed name. If the file name is changed back to the original one, annotations and scribbles reappear. I consider this a bug, too.