One thing that’s hinted at, but not stated directly is that you gotta be careful about interoperability! I don’t know the details, but I know that Skim and Preview/Acrobat handle annotations very differently. Hopefully, this post pushes people to collectively start using annotated PDFs. Preview/Acrobat do a fairly good, but not perfect, job of reading annotations from each other. While I find it to be less friendly (although my most recent version 10.0.2 looks better), it is cross-platform and allows you to share your PDFs with collaborators.
One feature that is lacking is being able to combine annotations from two different people (on the same file), but here I might be getting too greedy.Īdobe Reader, not just Adobe Acrobat Pro, has the Annotations features as well. The notes can also be of different color, making the parsing process much easier when multiple commenters are involved. When I am done with the comment, I can delete (or minimize) it, giving me a measure of what I have accomplished. One very useful feature: in the sidebar, you can switch to “Annotations” view and it will list all the comments. I find these much more convenient than the Big Red Pen (no need to decipher what that curly character means), text emails detailing the comments like your journal referee (no need to find page 15, paragraph 3, sentence 4), or scanned hard copies. I have been using Preview’s annotate feature for getting / giving feedback on paper drafts with collaborators.
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