Academics work with a lot of PDF files—journal articles, scanned ILL materials, and, increasingly, historical documents available through archives such as Google Books. After my first few posts here ...

Two weeks ago I asked ProfHacker readers, “How Do You Organize and Annotate PDFs?”, and you rose to the challenge. I can’t recount the entire discussion here (though it’s well worth reading through in ...

On Windows and Mac machines, it’s not too troublesome to add text or drawings (such as signatures) to PDF files, but [Mansour Behabadi] found that on Linux machines, there didn’t seem to be a ...

Google’s push to optimize its first-party apps on tablets continues with Drive for Android adding the ability to annotate PDFs using a stylus or finger. You will be able to “use your finger or a ...

Way back in the early 1990s, Adobe released the Portable Document Format (PDF). Ever since, PDFs have been a key tool in getting work done -- and that's about it. For the most part, PDFs remain ...

Staying organized as an entrepreneur is hard enough. You have thousands of documents, projects, tasks, and jobs to oversee all the time, the last thing you want is to have your time wasted. And yet, ...

It's especially useful if you need to convert somewhat niche formats, like DjVu or DVI files. Okular can even read certain ...

PDFs are great, portable, cross-platform documents that you can read on your Mac, your iPad or iPhone, or on a PC. But this ubiquitous file format is also useful when you need to share works in ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

The version of Preview in OS X 10.5 has some nice additions to its 10.4 predecessor, including more annotation abilities for PDFs. What I didn’t know, until very recently, is that you can also ...