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Originally Posted by binone
New to kobo.
Purchased the new elipsa 2E for its advertised annotation capability on both pdf and epub. HOWEVER!
First use case tested (side loaded - via dropbox - pdf doc)
- PDF Doc has highlighted text from previous highlighting.
No existing highlights appear in Elipsa. Strangely, you can go to annotations summary view, and it lists pages where highlights exist, but does not show the actual highlights.
- Cannot “highlight” any text in pdf doc on elipsa. Can only add annotations to a pdf doc.
The annotations so created do sync back to dropbox.
- Sideloaded pdf doc does not sync to kobo app. Only available on elipsa.
Not being able to import existing highlights and not able to highlight pdf seems like a major limitation.
Not sure if the same applies to sideloaded epubs.
One last note, the pdf text is rendered very feint, almost grey and hard to read. The same doc shows up fine on eg my ipad.
Not impressed so far :-(
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As you’ve discovered, Kobo syncs changes to PDF docs automatically to the Dropbox folder. This makes the Elipsa perfect for document signing synced through Dropbox, as well as annotating PDF and ePub files for studying, editing, analysis, etc.
Kobo’s basic PDF support only allows for annotation with the stylus. There are no controls for highlighting, pen width, pen style, text, etc.
This is the same for annotating in ePubs. The exception being you can highlight and add notes in ePubs, but none of the annotations can be exported. At least PDF annotations are synced and exportable.
If you’re looking for better tools, you’ll find them in the notebooks, especially the Advanced notebooks, but you cannot import PDF files as notebooks. The Elipsa 2E does everything Kobo claims it will do, but the PDF editing is minimal.