patnpm 30 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 Not sure if this is a Sierra problem or Evernote. Running 6.9.2 and just gone to Sierra No longer can I edit pdfs with Preview directly in evernote. Preview insists on me making a copy and saving that elsehwere. Just about the main advantage of using a Mac for Evernote over my ipad was the ability to annotate pdfs inline. (and I don't want to use the evernote Skitch-style pdf annotation). This doesn't seem to be a problem with Word files. Link to comment
BSR 208 Posted October 16, 2016 Share Posted October 16, 2016 12 hours ago, patnpm said: Not sure if this is a Sierra problem or Evernote. Running 6.9.2 and just gone to Sierra No longer can I edit pdfs with Preview directly in evernote. Preview insists on me making a copy and saving that elsehwere. Just about the main advantage of using a Mac for Evernote over my ipad was the ability to annotate pdfs inline. (and I don't want to use the evernote Skitch-style pdf annotation). This doesn't seem to be a problem with Word files. Hi @patnpm, thanks for reporting this. Our developers are working with Apple on this to determine where the issue lies. For now the suggest workaround is to annotate directly in EN, or if you need to use Preview, save the new PDF to a location on the computer and then upload it back into the note. I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any questions. Link to comment
apj68 1 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 I'm having a very recent problem. As of even a couple of days ago, I would open a note that has a PDF attachment, use the Open With option to open it in Preview (I'm on Mac 10.12 and EN 6.9.2/premium), make tweaks (such as rotate) and then click Save. I would not use Save As, rather just Save. I could see the change immediately in EN. As of today, when I hit save in my Preview it forces me to save it locally which is not at all what I want. I'm not sure if this is a result of my OS update to Sierra (10.12) or if it's a recent Evernote update. It seemed similar to older topics discussed here but I am absolutely certain that it's always worked the first way I described and only as of the past couple of days started working differently. Does anyone know if this is something configurable or some kind of change in behavior in EN? I hope there's a way to get back to the way it was previously. This would completely change my workflow. Thanks for any ideas! Andy Link to comment
apj68 1 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Ack! I see this has been reported on this forum: There's some additional in this other community: https://community.box.com/t5/Help-Forum/Box-Edit-Mac-OS-X-Sierra-Preview-pdf-markup-problems/td-p/23069 This is really annoying, time to look at rolling back Sierra! Link to comment
TGG 24 Posted October 22, 2016 Share Posted October 22, 2016 Just to add a "Me To" to this issue. I am pleased that it is not just me - but it is annoying. The ability to use Preview to edit in place was very useful and I really miss it. Link to comment
patnpm 30 Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 This problem appears to be specific to preview. So saving seems to work okay if you use another PDF viewer, such as Skim (which does have some advantages over preview and is also free) Link to comment
Sayre Ambrosio 520 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 On 10/16/2016 at 11:20 AM, BSR said: Hi @patnpm, thanks for reporting this. Our developers are working with Apple on this to determine where the issue lies. For now the suggest workaround is to annotate directly in EN, or if you need to use Preview, save the new PDF to a location on the computer and then upload it back into the note. I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any questions. I also found that a workaround is to have Skitch installed. I'm not sure if they are talking to each other or what (i'm not that technical) but since I installed the actual Skitch program it has solved the problem. I don't even have to have Skitch open and can annotate in EN. Before I installed it annotation was hit or miss since I updated. Haven't had a problem since though. Link to comment
BSR 208 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 9 hours ago, Sayre Ambrosio said: I also found that a workaround is to have Skitch installed. I'm not sure if they are talking to each other or what (i'm not that technical) but since I installed the actual Skitch program it has solved the problem. I don't even have to have Skitch open and can annotate in EN. Before I installed it annotation was hit or miss since I updated. Haven't had a problem since though. That is really interesting, I'm going to dig into this a little to see if there's any correlation there. Thanks for pointing this out @Sayre Ambrosio! Link to comment
Sayre Ambrosio 520 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 2 hours ago, BSR said: That is really interesting, I'm going to dig into this a little to see if there's any correlation there. Thanks for pointing this out @Sayre Ambrosio! I've suggested it to others and most of them have had the same result. A few have mentioned nothing is working for them. You are welcome. ? Link to comment
TGG 24 Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Just to add another wrinkle to this issue. The problem with Preview and annotations occurs on my late 2009 iMac, but not on my early 2015 Macbook - both running Sierra. It smells of directory permissions. Thanks for the suggestions regarding Skim and Skitch - but I do have Skitch installed as a separate app on the iMac (where it does not work), but not on the MacBook (where it does). Will try Skim Link to comment
TGG 24 Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I retract my last statement. I could annotate a PDF and save it on my MacBook, but bot delete page with Preview. I did install the free PDF Reader which did delete the page in place. Link to comment
homeion 3 Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 I'm also having the same problem. PDFs can not be annotated. But unlike Sayre, it applies to both annotation with Preview and Skitch on Mac. However, I can annotate on iPad. Link to comment
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