does samsung e60 saves handwriting notes?

[jbu]

i thinking of buying the samsung e60 but i read somewhere that after you write the note on the device you can't transfer the file with the note to the pc,is this true ? and if it is true can you get around this ?

[jbu]

can somebody help my ?
i have to decide today .

[ifnotnowwhen]

did you find out yet?

[apk5]

notes are saved as bmp files in /notes

you can transfer them to PC, no problem

as for writing on an epub, i don't know about that

[jbu]

i need it especially for PDF's.
to ifnotnowwhen, i still didn't got an answer about that .

[apk5]

you cannot write notes on PDF files with the E60

[jbu]

do you mean you can write & save ?
because i saw it done here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSAGS1bwxYU&t=0m40s

[jbu]

do you mean you can write & save ?
because i saw it done on you tube, but i don't know if it can be transferee to a PC.

[apk5]

Originally Posted by jbu

do you mean you can write & save ?
because i saw it done on you tube, but i don't know if it can be transferee to a PC.

You can write and save notes to an epub file, but not to a PDF file. you can also make annotations directly onto an epub file. however you cannot transfer epub files with annotations over to the computer. At least, if you can, i can't figure out how. There is no place that the changes are staged. I would have assumed that they could be saved as bmp files linked to particular pages that could be overlayed on top, but if this is the case they can't be accessed from the filesystem in the normal manner

As far as writing notes outside of a book file, these can be transferred to the computer, as BMP files, but these are individual handwritten notes and are independent of any book files. This is the handwriting feature on the E60, which I find very useful, but i feel you may be wanting to edit book files and save these changes, and i don't think this is possible

This is an example of a note written on E60 and transferred to imageshack as a BMP file.



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i hope this is helpful

[jbu]

it is, thanks a lot .

[jbu]

i just had an idea, i know you can convert PDF to Epub, can you use samsung virtual printer and send the document with the handwriting notes to virtual PDF Printer ?
i mean a virtual printer that prints the document to PDF file .

[apk5]

hmm, i don't know about that. i use a netbook with linux, so i cannot install the virtual printer software or other software that came on the CD. I don't have a CD-ROM drive you see

give me a couple of days to try, i can maybe copy the CD files to a memory stick when i'm in college on monday. I might be able to use WINE for the virtual printer software, perhaps.

I'll see what i can do

[apk5]

It looks like the Virtual Printer has a confusing name. From samsung.com

Let Virtual Printer set your documents free.

Turn your PC-based documents and favourite web pages into on-the-go reading with Virtual Printer. It automatically transmits documents and web content from your PC to your eReader, so you can take them with you and read them whenever you want. It's easy. Just open the document or web page on your PC and let the Virtual Printer software optimise and save it onto your eReader, where it will appear as a printed page.

If i'm correct what the virtual printer actually does is convert things like word documents and webpages into PDF files that can be easily read on the E60, saving you the trouble of using other software to do the converting.

So it looks like the answer to your question is "no"

shame

[apk5]

It looks like the Virtual Printer has a confusing name. From samsung.com

Let Virtual Printer set your documents free.

Turn your PC-based documents and favourite web pages into on-the-go reading with Virtual Printer. It automatically transmits documents and web content from your PC to your eReader, so you can take them with you and read them whenever you want. It's easy. Just open the document or web page on your PC and let the Virtual Printer software optimise and save it onto your eReader, where it will appear as a printed page.

If i'm correct what the virtual printer actually does is convert things like word documents and webpages into PDF files that can be easily read on the E60, saving you the trouble of using other software to do the converting.

So it looks like the answer to your question is "no"

shame