MobileRead Forums - View Single Post

tomsem · 06-13-2023, 05:02 PM

I've been looking at PDF support in some of Scribe's competitors: ReMarkable 2, Boox Note Air 2, Kobo Elipsa (YouTube overviews). I had thought they would include more annotation tools (like the average desktop and tablet PDF apps would) but in that respect, only the Note Air 2 has more than Scribe (looked like underline, strikeout).

The critical deficiency of Scribe is not on device PDF features, but with the conversion services. On the way in, you lose any existing PDF annotations, and on the way back, all you get is a visual representation, without any actual PDF annotations.

It's not clear what the other devices do with existing annotations of a type which they cannot create (Shape, strikethrough etc.). So they may have limitations there as well. But at least the end result is not 'lossy': it's the original PDF with annotations added to it.

06-13-2023, 05:02 PM	#10
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,951 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	I've been looking at PDF support in some of Scribe's competitors: ReMarkable 2, Boox Note Air 2, Kobo Elipsa (YouTube overviews). I had thought they would include more annotation tools (like the average desktop and tablet PDF apps would) but in that respect, only the Note Air 2 has more than Scribe (looked like underline, strikeout). The critical deficiency of Scribe is not on device PDF features, but with the conversion services. On the way in, you lose any existing PDF annotations, and on the way back, all you get is a visual representation, without any actual PDF annotations. It's not clear what the other devices do with existing annotations of a type which they cannot create (Shape, strikethrough etc.). So they may have limitations there as well. But at least the end result is not 'lossy': it's the original PDF with annotations added to it. Last edited by tomsem; 06-13-2023 at 05:15 PM.