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vxf · 06-17-2010, 09:02 PM

You can upload your PDFs. I actually haven't had the device for long and never played around with DOCs and RTFs, but I think I read DOCs are not supported. Sorry, not much help there. Shame on me for not having even tried... but I live with PDFs nowadays.

But yes on highlights and exporting. You connect your device to your PC, then you can download the annotated/highlighted file on your PC and/or export highlights and annotations in RTF.

The 2,000 char limit is for a single highlight. I am deducing this because I have plenty of files with 20+ highlights with 500-1000 characters each, and they export fine.

You can view your annotated file on your PC via the reader software. So yes, you can see your highlights and your handwriting, on the file, on your PC screen. Which is really the best part of it all. You can even add notes/highlights on the PC and merge them with those on the device and then re-upload on the device.

Everything can be exported to the same RTF. Notes, markups and even handwritten annotation (it saves an image file of the page with the handwritten notes and sticks it into the RTF; if you want an example, email me at vxf6514 at yahoo.com, I can send some examples too large to post here).

Would be even better if you could view your annotated file with different software, but I don't think anything will do it yet.

The file management, in the background, is a mess. The reader saves the annotations in one spot and the file in another. So you need its own software to overlay the two... if that makes any sense. And it takes a bit of trial-and-error to understand how to manage files (for example, I force it to keep the annotations associated with a copy of the file I store in a dedicated folder... but if you are not careful it will associate the annotations with the original version of the file you imported... and if you move it, then you are screwed... Again, I guess this might not make much sense now but it will once you start messing with the device; suffice to say, it takes a bit of patience to figure out, but it works great... eventually). So the easier thing is to export all to RTF.

06-17-2010, 09:02 PM	#2
vxf Guru Posts: 944 Karma: 1490348 Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Norman, OK Device: Sony PRS 350, 900, 950; Kindles (ALL of them!); Kobo Aura One	You can upload your PDFs. I actually haven't had the device for long and never played around with DOCs and RTFs, but I think I read DOCs are not supported. Sorry, not much help there. Shame on me for not having even tried... but I live with PDFs nowadays. But yes on highlights and exporting. You connect your device to your PC, then you can download the annotated/highlighted file on your PC and/or export highlights and annotations in RTF. The 2,000 char limit is for a single highlight. I am deducing this because I have plenty of files with 20+ highlights with 500-1000 characters each, and they export fine. You can view your annotated file on your PC via the reader software. So yes, you can see your highlights and your handwriting, on the file, on your PC screen. Which is really the best part of it all. You can even add notes/highlights on the PC and merge them with those on the device and then re-upload on the device. Everything can be exported to the same RTF. Notes, markups and even handwritten annotation (it saves an image file of the page with the handwritten notes and sticks it into the RTF; if you want an example, email me at vxf6514 at yahoo.com, I can send some examples too large to post here). Would be even better if you could view your annotated file with different software, but I don't think anything will do it yet. The file management, in the background, is a mess. The reader saves the annotations in one spot and the file in another. So you need its own software to overlay the two... if that makes any sense. And it takes a bit of trial-and-error to understand how to manage files (for example, I force it to keep the annotations associated with a copy of the file I store in a dedicated folder... but if you are not careful it will associate the annotations with the original version of the file you imported... and if you move it, then you are screwed... Again, I guess this might not make much sense now but it will once you start messing with the device; suffice to say, it takes a bit of patience to figure out, but it works great... eventually). So the easier thing is to export all to RTF.