IPad Annotation Feature Won't Zoom

[Aamado 0]

Hello Development Team, 

    Is there a patch coming that will allow the annotation feature on the IPad to zoom in? It is incredibly difficult to read a pdf, even with a 12.9 inch screen. 

[Sayre Ambrosio 525]

13 hours ago, Aamado said:

Hello Development Team, 

    Is there a patch coming that will allow the annotation feature on the IPad to zoom in? It is incredibly difficult to read a pdf, even with a 12.9 inch screen. 

I have had this question for the last three years.

[Dave-in-Decatur 3,998]

14 hours ago, Aamado said:

Hello Development Team, 

    Is there a patch coming that will allow the annotation feature on the IPad to zoom in? It is incredibly difficult to read a pdf, even with a 12.9 inch screen. 

Welcome to the forums. These are user-to-user forums, with no development team members here on a regular basis. The best way to contact them is via a support request if you have a paid subscription (https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new), or via the feedback feature in the apps.

[Sayre Ambrosio 525]

1 minute ago, Dave-in-Decatur said:

Welcome to the forums. These are user-to-user forums, with no development team members here on a regular basis. The best way to contact them is via a support request if you have a paid subscription (https://help.evernote.com/hc/en-us/requests/new), or via the feedback feature in the apps.

I second reaching out to support of course but prepare to frustrated. Support to date can’t replicate it and all they tell me is to uninstall and reinstall and make sure I’m running the latest version. 

[PinkElephant 8,705]

Can't replicate - hmmmmm. When I send them a ticket, way back, it was all replicated, talked about and served to the devs. We run EN here at home on different accounts and on several iPads and can replicate the problem 1:1 on all of them. Amazingly zoom while annotating works without any problem on iPhones. It seems the app just believes if the screen is already "big" enough, it can save itself some work and quit zooming.

Another support ticket, maybe ... ?

[Sayre Ambrosio 525]

23 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Can't replicate - hmmmmm. When I send them a ticket, way back, it was all replicated, talked about and served to the devs. We run EN here at home on different accounts and on several iPads and can replicate the problem 1:1 on all of them. Amazingly zoom while annotating works without any problem on iPhones. It seems the app just believes if the screen is already "big" enough, it can save itself some work and quit zooming.

Another support ticket, maybe ... ?

Yup. Each and every time they can't replicate it. I know others like you have been able to have it replicated. After the third ticket I gave up and started using something more robust for annotation and then put it back in Evernote when I'm done. I refuse to send another ticket. For me, the problem was solved with a different app with more features that syncs to Evernote.

[PinkElephant 8,705]

On a Mac it’s slick for a change, opening the Preview app directly. It has much better annotation features than the „Skitch on a shoestring“ tools they offer natively. After it saves back into the original pdf, inside of the original note. 

You have any tool on the iPad that saves back to the original note ? On the iPad I only have apps that will create a new note from the edited pdf.

[Sayre Ambrosio 525]

8 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

On a Mac it’s slick for a change, opening the Preview app directly. It has much better annotation features than the „Skitch on a shoestring“ tools they offer natively. After it saves back into the original pdf, inside of the original note. 

You have any tool on the iPad that saves back to the original note ? On the iPad I only have apps that will create a new note from the edited pdf.

All my PDFs go into Apple notes first, I annotate as needed. They stay there till I’m done, and then I stick that annotated PDF into Evernote for storage.

 

All my PDFs go into Apple notes first, I annotate as needed. They stay there till I’m done and then I stick that annotated PDF into Evernote for storage

 

Note shelf still syncs with Evernote I think. When I used it a version or two ago, it was great.

[PinkElephant 8,705]

Hmmmm - it sounds sort of a contradiction to me to use a different app to annotate, and keep content outside of EN while the annotations may go on. It creates duplication, and keeps documents in 2 different locations - enhanced by the fact that Spotlight search won’t find content in EN. I understand the motivation, it shows what this broken function can provoke.

About Noteshelf: I like that it syncs into EN, but I didn’t like it in general. So I use GoodNotes, and export the notes into EN once I am done. Yes, another duplication …

[Sayre Ambrosio 525]

53 minutes ago, PinkElephant said:

Hmmmm - it sounds sort of a contradiction to me to use a different app to annotate, and keep content outside of EN while the annotations may go on. It creates duplication, and keeps documents in 2 different locations - enhanced by the fact that Spotlight search won’t find content in EN. I understand the motivation, it shows what this broken function can provoke.

About Noteshelf: I like that it syncs into EN, but I didn’t like it in general. So I use GoodNotes, and export the notes into EN once I am done. Yes, another duplication …

For my workflow it's not contradictory.Once I'm done annotating something I rarely go back and add to it. I have goodnotes as well but 2023 is the year of me teaching people how to use stock apps so that's why I moved that to Apple Notes.