Hello,
I previously asked for help with this issue in the Kindle forum but they were not able to solve it, so I'm hoping for better luck here. I have also changed PC but am still getting the same problem.
I am a university student and I have to read a lot of PDFs. I read them on my Kindle 3 Keyboard and make notes and highlights on the device. I want to be able to transfer the annotated PDF file to my PC for writing essays. However, Kindle does not modify the PDF file and save the annotations directly on it, instead it creates a seperate PDR file which has the annotation information.
I know that the Kindle creates a MyClippings.txt file which contains the annotations but I do not want to use this; I want to be able to display the complete annotated PDF.
I have found a program online which seems to be able to merge the PDR annotation information with the PDF:
https://code.google.com/p/kindle-annotations/wiki/Usage However, this is a command prompt tool and I have not be able to get it to work yet. Here is what I have tried so far:
In the instructions on the website it says "You have to call java -jar kindle-annotator-0.3.jar <parameters> to run the annotator". It also says that the parameters are:
-in/--input filename Specify an input file.
-out/--output filename Specify an output file.
I have downloaded the newest version of the program, 0.4.1. I already have java installed and I have saved all the files for the annotator program to a folder with the filepath
C:\Users\Barnaby\K\. I have also saved the PDF and PDR files in the same folder, they are called
something.pdr and
something.pdf
So, when I open command prompt, it is in filepath
C:\Users\Barnaby then I typed
cd K to change to
C:\Users\Barnaby\K I then typed
set CLASSPATH=%CLASSPATH%;C:\Users\Barnaby\K. Then to specify the location of my java.exe program I typed
set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin.
Then to run the program I typed
java C:\Users\Barnaby\K\kindle-annotator-0.4.1.jar -in C:\Users\Barnaby\K\something.pdr -out C:\Users\Barnaby\K\something.pdf . But I got the error message saying
Could not load or find main class C:\Users\Barnaby\K\kindle-annotator-0.4.1.jar.
So I changed the file location that command prompt is in by typing
cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jre7\bin. Finally I tried typing
java C:\Users\Barnaby\K\kindle-annotator-0.4.1.jar -in C:\Users\Barnaby\K\something.pdr -out C:\Users\Barnaby\K\something.pdf but I got the error message again