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Working with PDFs
Increasingly academic life means working with PDFs. academHacK has a post up on "Working with Pdfs (Adobe isn't the only option)," that points out some of the other options. The idea is that with an application that allows editing of PDFs, you could do a great number of things:
- You could use such an application to take notes directly on those articles you download from JSTOR, Project Muse or other such journal databases.
- Many publishers will send you proofs as a .pdf, you could make corrections directly on the proof, rather than writing a separate document.
- Many sites allow you to download brochures, maps, fliers, etc. in .pdf form, this way you can make notes straight on the file.
- In fact you could require your students to submit everything as a .pdf and comment directly on the papers, sending them back to the students. This would replicate the “writing in the margins effect” while keeping everything digital. One of the authors on The Unofficial Apple Weblog does this, as he outlines in this post.
Specifically, for Macs, a comparison of the pay programs: PdfClerk and PdfPen is pointed out, along with a point to the free Skim. For PC, Scribus. Also, Wikipedia has a list of PDF software for all platforms.
— michael | April 20, 2007 09:28 AM | The more you know
