Academics work with a lot of PDF files—journal articles, scanned ILL materials, and, increasingly, historical documents available through archives such as Google Books.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

TL;DR: PDF Agile gives Windows users a fast, full-featured PDF editor —complete with OCR, conversion tools, security features ...

If you flip back through your course notes, you’ll see that last week we explored using Preview to edit and annotate images. But as I explained in that lesson, Preview has powers beyond images. It’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...