They need to either 1) buy Notability and integrate it into Evernote, 2) create an integration with Notability that indexes the PDFs in Evernote, or 3) build the Notability feature set in Evernote. What's more, it hasn't changed in at least four years. The pdf annotation feature set in Evernote is complete $hit. Sadly, Evernote can't do that for you, even as a subscriber.
#HOW TO HIGHLIGHT ON PDF ON MAC SOFTWARE#
If you want to edit the content you'd normally pay a substantial fee for PDF Editor software to open and re-save the format. They’re commonly used for documents like user manuals, eBooks, application forms, and scanned documents, to name just a few." The operative words there being 'read only'. The How-To Geek site describes PDFs as "typically used to distribute read-only documents that preserve the layout of a page. It's quite possible, and has been for some time, to annotate and highlight text in PDF files, and to highlight in a text note. You had a small meltdown over highlighting text. But this comes for a price, to be paid on download. This will make the Review toolbar appear at the top of.
2) Click Insert > Highlight from the menu bar or use the keyboard shortcut Shift + Command + H. 1) Select the text by dragging through it or double-clicking it. If one tries to do the same with a real pdf editor like the one described above, it is clear that working on the text itself gives greater accuracy. With Pages open to the document where you want to highlight some text, follow the steps below. The help article about annotating images and pdfs clearly describes annotation - it does never mention editing the pdf itself (what would ne needed if a text in itself should be highlighted, instead of placing a color strip above the text to highlighter it). One may like it or not, but I don’t think this should be the issue to discuss in an unfriendly manner. The build in features of EN is not editing the pdf itself, it is more like „drawing“ on an invisible layer above of the underlying pdf. When the note is now closed (or saved), the changes will be burned into the pdf contained in the EN note. It even works from within of an EN note: „Open with“, opens in PDF Expert, edit there, close, will return the edited pdf into the note from which it was opened.
#HOW TO HIGHLIGHT ON PDF ON MAC MAC#
On a Mac (or iOS) I would recommend PDF Expert as an app that can really edit the pdf content.