[tomsem]

It occurred to me that some people might be interested in extracting, converting and applying Print Replica annotations to the original PDF. But then I thought about it more, and have a feeling that Amazon will be improving the export to do exactly that, and we will not have to wait too long for this.

The one thing they have not delivered on is the PDF Markup story, but this week's update was a necessary step towards that goal. I think the next update will be adding at least some other tools from PDF markup palette: Shape, Text, Underline, Strikethrough, etc.

The current export product is only a placeholder while they get these other pieces in place. The end goal has to be the original PDF, with Scribe annotations converted to PDF annotations, or it will be worthless for most requirements. And if the annotation palette is not rich enough, it's also not measuring up.

They're going to want to promote Scribe for Back To School, the Print Replica part is good to go now, so I think we'll see this PDF related stuff by July.

That said, I'm trying to find time to work on a command line tool for preparing PDFs for Send to Kindle.

The main thing is to detect chapters and create PDF bookmarks for them (these become Print Replica ToC entries). Then detect Contents listing book sections and create page links from and to. And for extra credit, create page links for Index entries, Footnote references etc.