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tomsem · 07-17-2023, 12:31 PM

Somewhere along the way, the export to PDF product has gotten much better for PDF markup scenario.

It appears more like the original PDF sent to Send To Kindle. Text and page links are preserved now, whereas before it was just a series of 1860x2480 raster images.

What is still missing is:

PDF bookmarks are not restored (as a representation of the ToC of the converted Print Replica document)
Scribe annotations are not converted properly to PDF annotations, so pen annotations are placed on 1860x2480 raster image, highlights are a text property and not a PDF highlight annotation, and text notes are represented by a little note icon rather than being converted to a PDF Sticky Note (with the text itself) at that location. Scribe bookmarks vanish (perhaps these should become PDF bookmarks with some placeholder label).
and of course any existing PDF annotations are lost with the conversion to Print Replica

If they fix the first 2 of these things, then at least you could continue marking up with another PDF tool and not have to re-create the bookmarks.

It seems they are generating the PDF sui generis from the Print Replica document, and not updating the PDF that was sent in, otherwise the original PDF bookmarks would still be there. So there are likely other properties of the original PDF which get wiped out as well.

The other markup scenario (documents converted from ePub and Word) could also be improved somewhat also in terms of converting text notes to PDF Sticky Notes, but it's not clear what they can do with Scribe Sticky Notes, since PDF doesn't have an equivalent annotation type.

At any rate, glad to learn they have been working on this. It's not 'there' yet, but it is getting closer.

07-17-2023, 12:31 PM	#16
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,966 Karma: 27060153 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	Somewhere along the way, the export to PDF product has gotten much better for PDF markup scenario. It appears more like the original PDF sent to Send To Kindle. Text and page links are preserved now, whereas before it was just a series of 1860x2480 raster images. What is still missing is: PDF bookmarks are not restored (as a representation of the ToC of the converted Print Replica document) Scribe annotations are not converted properly to PDF annotations, so pen annotations are placed on 1860x2480 raster image, highlights are a text property and not a PDF highlight annotation, and text notes are represented by a little note icon rather than being converted to a PDF Sticky Note (with the text itself) at that location. Scribe bookmarks vanish (perhaps these should become PDF bookmarks with some placeholder label). and of course any existing PDF annotations are lost with the conversion to Print Replica If they fix the first 2 of these things, then at least you could continue marking up with another PDF tool and not have to re-create the bookmarks. It seems they are generating the PDF sui generis from the Print Replica document, and not updating the PDF that was sent in, otherwise the original PDF bookmarks would still be there. So there are likely other properties of the original PDF which get wiped out as well. The other markup scenario (documents converted from ePub and Word) could also be improved somewhat also in terms of converting text notes to PDF Sticky Notes, but it's not clear what they can do with Scribe Sticky Notes, since PDF doesn't have an equivalent annotation type. At any rate, glad to learn they have been working on this. It's not 'there' yet, but it is getting closer. Last edited by tomsem; 07-17-2023 at 06:34 PM.