Hallo everyone! At my university I get almost

[nino]

Hallo everyone!

At my university I get almost all scripta as pdf-files. The annotation feature of Adobe Acrobat 6 is nice, but it is not ink-enabled and I do not want to use my m200 as a notebook only.

Just saving those pdf to .doc files is not always a good solution, as there are often images/diagramms/mindmaps/tables/... in those documents. I have to reformat the documents in word format to use my ink features...

Can you think of any better solution?

[wheat]

Try GoBinder.

[arehrlich]

You can print the pdf files to Journal - which you already have - or to either TabletPlanner or GoBinder - which have the eBinder function.

Personally, I like the eBinder approach. It's great for file/subject management and the printing function seems to work very well with annotations.

GoBinder was selling recently for a cheap $49.95. I don't know if that is still the price. I might have gone up to the regular $99.95. Check it out. Both TP and GB have downloadable trials. It's worth the download.

Alan

[nino]

thanks for your replies

journal is not a good solution, the scriptum is a mere background to the notes and I will have much work afterwards.

GoBinder trial version shows an error massage, it can't access the registry... I have to see why

[JeffG]

quote:Originally posted by nino

thanks for your replies
GoBinder trial version shows an error massage, it can't access the registry... I have to see why

Are you saying the installation reports the error? If so, GoBinder installation requires you to have administrator rights on your computer so that the install can read and write to the registry. Also, if you or your system administrator have changed permissions on your registry (using regedit) to disallow some actions, that could be the cause, too.

[nino]

well, now I installed it as "administrator" and it works...

but same problem here: I get the text into gobinder, can make annotations but I cannot access the orginal text from within the programm.

so for instance i have some notes in the scriptum:

- abc abc abc abc
- bbd bbd bbd bbd
- ff gg aw ww ddw (+ 111111111)
^
and then add something ----^
Then I want to be able to copy the corrected text to my Word...

I think it is important to be able to search through the original document and my notes.

[rbushway]

Unfortunately, all of the "Print To" solutions will be like this. However, GoBinder / TabletPlanner will search the text, so the ability to extract the text ought to be there at some level, correct Jeff?

What you are asking about is a good feature request.

Unfortunately, copying and pasting will lose the format of the text.

[nino]

well, I think Adobe has to do something about it... In pdf the text is there, just the notes should be ink-enabled...

this way, I do not have much advantage of the tablet... I still have my notes and from this I have to create summaries and learning papers... So there are still 2 levels in which I have to work.

I will ask for the .doc papers, as word ist quite powerful..

[JeffG]

quote:Originally posted by rbushway

Unfortunately, all of the "Print To" solutions will be like this. However, GoBinder / TabletPlanner will search the text, so the ability to extract the text ought to be there at some level

As you hinted at, you cannot extract original text from a "printed to" item during a cut/paste operation. (It's on the wishlist!) You can only cut/copy text that you added on top of the printed doc.

[nino]

I think this is a great disadvantage...
Also if document is printed, it is possible to extract the text, as you can see from adobe acrobat. I print directly from my word document to the distiller, and it recognizes text to save it as such. Otherwise the pdf files were much larger I think.
Thus it should be possible to create a real working print to solution.