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Originally Posted by Cootey
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.
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Thank you for your detailed response.
I wonder why they chose to not allow highlighting in pdf documents. Even the least functionally rich pdf readers support highlighting.
But more to the point, elipsa does not show any existing highlights in an imported pdf doc. It knows they are there. I.e if you go to the annotations section. Except that all annotations are shown as blank. It even jumps to the page where the highlights are supposed to be.
I think i could live with the pdf limitations *if* elipsa was consistent in also allowing a mechanism to export epub annotations.
Also, not sure if it is possible to copy an annotation and paste into a notebook for taking book notes.