[AlexC]

Sorry, haven't looked into highlighting or text notes.

I did get a question about exporting handwriting to a pdf. I'm not at my normal computer, but the script is fairly straightforward. Here's a simple kludgy example in R that should work. (Can't check at the moment as I don't have my Reader handy.)

#!/usr/bin/Rscript

# Convert Sony Reader Touch handwritten notes in directory to a multi-page pdf

output.file <- 'output.pdf'
line.width <- 2
line.colour <- 'black'

pdf(file=output.file, width=8.5, height=11)
files <- list.files(pattern='.note')
rot <- matrix(c(1, 0, 0, -1), ncol=2, byrow=TRUE)
for(file in files){
    par(mar=c(0, 0, 0, 0))
    plot(NULL, xlim=c(0, 600), ylim=c(-710, 0), type='n', axes=FALSE, xlab='', ylab='')
    file <- readLines(file)
    for(line in file){
        if(grepl('<xs1:polyline points=', line)){
            coords <- strsplit(strsplit(line, '\"')[[1]][2], ' ')[[1]]
            coords <- matrix(as.numeric(unlist(lapply(coords, strsplit, ','))), ncol=2, byrow=TRUE) %*% rot
            lines(coords, lwd=line.width, col=line.colour)
        }
    }
}
dev.off()