Quality of Imported PDFs (Pixelation) - Please Help!!!

[aeschallerer 0]

Hi there! 

I recently started grad school and am studying to be a nurse practitioner so -- medical topics. Trying to figure out the best way to take notes on the lecture slides without printing them, which are provided to us in PDF format only with options to download PDF versions with 2, 3, or 6 slides per page. All that being said, a lot of the slides have images (anatomical diagrams with fine details/small labels for different parts, pictures of assessment findings etc) that are NOT readable if they are pixelated. When I upload a PDF to Evernote, it substantially decreases the quality of the document and renders it nearly useless as a study tool. I was considering upgrading to Evernote Personal, but I don't want to pay for it if it's going to make all of my lecture slides pixelated. 

I included a screenshot of what it looks like when I try to zoom in on an image on a slide after importing the PDF to Evernote (granted this is just a silly slide, but I still can't even read what's on it). 

Does anyone have any insight/experience with this issue? Is this something that could be resolved upon upgrading from the free version to the personal version? 

Any insights from Evernote support or users alike is much appreciated! And if you have suggestions for other softwares that will not do this then I would appreciate that too, if Evernote isn't able to allow us to upload PDFs for annotation without altering the quality. I have tried editing/annotating directly in Adobe but am having issues with a glitch that is not letting me save the file after hours spent annotating it while listening to the lecture, so I am desperately searching for other options.   

yours truly, 

stressed out med student

[gazumped 11,663]

Hi. Upgrading your account won't fix this issue - they all use the same import/ display process which -normally- gives good results. Your experience is certainly not typical.  Do you see this image in better quality on a slide you have downloaded?  Can you post that slide file here so we can take a look at the format?  Best suggestion at the moment would be to download slides in as big a format as you can - 1 or 2 per page at most - to allow space for notes,  and to give you a better result on screen.

[agsteele 2,946]

If you are annotating your PDF in Acrobat after importing into Evernote then you might have success saving your work by clicking the Save button before closing the file. In the past clicking the close option and then saying yes to saving would save the PDF to a new file outside Evernote. So it would appear that the changes were lost. Save and then close kept everything inside the Evernote attachment. The latest versions of Evernote seen to have fixed this for me but you might try this...

[PinkElephant 8,100]

Usually EN will not alter a file in the upload. Maybe it is more a problem of the build in pdf viewer than really an alternation of the PDFs resolution and quality.

GoodNotes 5 is another app that allows to import and annotate pdf files. The app is a one time purchase. 

You can keep your active documents in GN5, and export them as a pdf (with annotations and handwriting) into EN. GN5 OCRs your handwriting - the PDFs are fully searchable in EN.

For your studies: GN5 has a flash card functionality as well.

[Stephen Gray 7]

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Hi there! 

I recently started grad school and am studying to be a nurse practitioner so -- medical topics. Trying to figure out the best way to take notes on the lecture slides without printing them, which are provided to us in PDF format only with options to download PDF versions with 2, 3, or 6 slides per page. All that being said, a lot of the slides have images (anatomical diagrams with fine details/small labels for different parts, pictures of assessment findings etc) that are NOT readable if they are pixelated. When I upload a PDF to Evernote, it substantially decreases the quality of the document and renders it nearly useless as a study tool. I was considering upgrading to Evernote Personal, but I don't want to pay for it if it's going to make all of my lecture slides pixelated. 

I included a screenshot of what it looks like when I try to zoom in on an image on a slide after importing the PDF to Evernote (granted this is just a silly slide, but I still can't even read what's on it). 

Does anyone have any insight/experience with this issue? Is this something that could be resolved upon upgrading from the free version to the personal version? 

Any insights from Evernote support or users alike is much appreciated! And if you have suggestions for other softwares that will not do this then I would appreciate that too, if Evernote isn't able to allow us to upload PDFs for annotation without altering the quality. I have tried editing/annotating directly in Adobe but am having issues with a glitch that is not letting me save the file after hours spent annotating it while listening to the lecture, so I am desperately searching for other options.   

yours truly, 

stressed out med student


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