how to annotate a pdf with penultimate

[gawnfishin 0]

Using an iPad 3, how can I open a pdf sent as an email attachment in penultimate to annotate.  I can get it to Evernote but  not penultimate.

[Bardolobo 14]

Sadly, as far as I know, there is no way to do it.

[vurtual 13]

You can screenshot it and use it as a paper, but it's not great because penultimate fades the original. This is a sorely missing feature.

[student 0]

You can convert the pdf file into a jpg file and then insert each of the pages into penultimate. Try pdf2jpg.net.

[vurtual 13]

Evernote devs, please improve this!

[Miguel T. Mendes 1]

Hi,

 

I'm using Evernote since I bought my iPad. I tested Penultimate but I'm using Goodnotes because I need to take notes on pdf files.

 

I want to quit using Goodnotes and get back to Penultimate since I want to have my handwritten notes synced to Evernote.

 

Can you please develop this feature??????

 

Thanks

[PhilFromFrance 3]

Another testimonial to this subject.

This is one of the major features that is missing in Penultimate.

I want to be able to open PDFs from anywhere in iOS straight into Penultimate, and then sketch anything in it. I would use this to annotate and to sign documents. Note: I am very much in favor of integration, vs. multiple applications for different purposes. I will not bother using Evernote for storing, SketchIT to annotate and penultimate for handwriting. Penultimate + Evernote already has the most advanced set of features, I would love to see the missing features added to them only.

This function as well as the paper rotation (see thread on this topic) and a zoom window (or any smart solution improving the zoom mode) would make Penultimate THE best nite taking app. And would kill any doubt about switching to competing applications.

Thanks to the EN team for the good work.

[risunokairu 0]

You can't do it in Penultimate because they sell it as a feature in the Evernote Premium version of Skitch.

[PhilFromFrance 3]

The pricing is one thing. I may consider paying a fee for quality products.

The distribution of features across separate apps vs. the integration of all features in one same app is a different matter. If find it too cumbersome to switch from app to app.

[phipum 0]

same here. It would be great to annotate pdfs in penultimate or skitch by hand, I don't care which program, but it would of added value.

 

Philipp

[RobA 0]

Add me to the list of people requesting this.  I take notes on my ipad with a stylus, and on paper, often on the same topic.  In the past I have scanned my paper notes and inserted them into the ipad notebook (using Notability).  That way I have a consolidated set of notes on a topic in whatever form they were originally created. I appears that Penultimate lets you export pdfs, but not import them.  This is the principal reason I am still using Notability and not Penultimate.

[bifterX 0]

Ill join this club - I'm using a kludge of noteshelf to annotate and sign things then export to evernote. But amending this annotated version and vice versa is very kludgy.

[ptravis92 0]

Plus one for Penultimate PDF annotation. 

[dbwood 0]

Can't use Penultimate without PDF annotation.

[SidJ 0]

Absolutely essential feature - completely agreed.

Evernote/Penultimate devs : can we please have a way to annotate PPT and PDFs in Penultimate?

[zirinisp 0]

Essential feature for me too. I try to annotate pdf with the evernote "a" button on the top of my iPad and the experience is no where near penultimate. It is unusable. I am premium by the way as i value evernote as a great tool, but would like to see that feature added.

[stocky2605 386]

Still not possible - annotate in Evernote is not a valid option, I want to use handwritten ink in Penultimate.

Please, implement this finally - all other note taking apps already have the feature.

Thank you.

[Stix 0]

plus 1!!!  I need this feature

[Mark Theriot 0]

Add me as well!

 

[Quy 0]

I just deleted it because without annotate pdf.

[Katie Topchishvili 0]

+1 to this discussion. I need the pdf annotation in penultimate for my studies, when i have to practice writing something. and doing it in Evernote doesn't feel the same. Please add this feature. 

Thank you. 

[Spencer Hanley 1]

Agree.  This is the most frustrating thing about Evernote.  I want to use my apple pencil to write on top of a PDF, but I don't want to sit down and take a photo of every page and paste it into penultimate.  If they don't get a drawing over pdf feature soon, I may dump them and find something better. 

[drybone 2]

Please add annotate PDF support or purchase the Goodnotes App and dump penultimate, its really lacking and Evernote deserves better.

[Nils.F 0]

+100 for this feature - would be an absolute killer. Have a 9.7" ipad pro with pencil and look into ways of making it my travel companion rather than carrying a laptop around with me, and data isolated in app silos is the biggest challenge here - evernote has a great potential to pool and sync all relevant data, and penultimate is my favourite note taking app already.

[chaffinr05 13]

Why hasn't this feature been implemented yet? Why can I not use my Apple pencil to annotate onto PDF's in penultimate!!! 

[Asya 0]

Plus One. It has been a year and people are still asking...

[Rico Büttner 0]

Plus one here. PDFs in Penultimate, please!

[Deanoismyname 1]

How come I don't see any devs or moderators in here to help? Is that only in the other forum?

[Chris Setlock 1]

Add me to the list.  I'd like very much to use penultimate to fill out .pdf forms and Evernote to store them. 

[Felipe Cattani 1]

Also having the same problem. I had been using NotesPlus (the paid version, wich doesn't cost much). It might solve your problems until someone from Evernote/Penultimate read their discussion board and give us any reply. I'm listing the reasons why I'm still with NotesPlus:

1. It produces neat notes
2. Provides the approximation writing (zoom) AND move the writing box automatically
3. Offers palm rejection when using approximation writing box (so people don't need to have a Bluetooth stylus),
4. Lots of pen styles, colors (+ opacity),
5. Easily import and export pdf notes/documents without limit for the number of pages. Also very easy to get pdfs from your google drive with the app. I download pdf books and read them with the app so I can take notes and highlight things very easy (including exporting just the pages I want to my peers)

Downside:

1. Hurts the iPad performance, it gets slow when you start having a lot of notes. 
2. Not a lot of improvements

Hope this provides some help to the users, and maybe some nice ideas for improvements to Evernote/Penultimate.

[UriCai 5]

Okay, so i worked on it a bit and found out that the problem is with the proprietary filetype of penultimate, which does not support PDF's until today. Sorry folks, you're not going to find it anytime soon. Also, I want to say, support for apple pencil in the app is really bad. Penultimate's team have a lot of potential, you can see through the app, but it seems to me EN is stalling that potential.

[laurencelewis 0]

Just started with Evernote and penultimate iOS. There is no function for note merging and sorting and no possibility of annotating pdfs despite people asking for this for years. Bye bye Evernote.

[hanna 0]

On 12/27/2013 at 6:39 AM, PhilFromFrance said:

Another testimonial to this subject.

This is one of the major features that is missing in Penultimate.

I want to be able to open PDFs from anywhere in iOS straight into Penultimate, and then sketch anything in it. I would use this to annotate and to sign documents. Note: I am very much in favor of integration, vs. multiple applications for different purposes. I will not bother using Evernote for storing, SketchIT to annotate and penultimate for handwriting. Penultimate + Evernote already has the most advanced set of features, I would love to see the missing features added to them only.

This function as well as the paper rotation (see thread on this topic) and a zoom window (or any smart solution improving the zoom mode) would make Penultimate THE best nite taking app. And would kill any doubt about switching to competing applications.

Thanks to the EN team for the good work.

Almost 4 years sigh

[Cfett 0]

+1  Love Evernote.  Love Penultimate.  NEED to be able to annotate pdfs seamlessly while syncing to Evernote.

[AMOS BLACK 0]

Add me: Critical to annotate PDF files ASAP with an easy way to load them into penultimate!!!!!!!!!!

[XFENG 0]

REALLLY NEED THIS FEATURE GUYS

[mwrob 7]

Yes, this is important to me as well.  I can do with pdf expert or Noteshelf but would prefer to do with Penultimate so I don’t need the extra apps.

[Randen Montalvo 9]

Guys Evernote gave up on Penultimate, check the update dates. The thing is dated outclassed by every other apple pencil application. Sadly they just don't seem to care about thats why it hasn't ben updated with features the community wants. I say abandon it and include the entire feature set into EN since penultimate by itself is just like using a a 5 year old piece of software with one good thing about it which is EN sync. 

[mwrob 7]

18 hours ago, Randen Montalvo said:

Guys Evernote gave up on Penultimate, check the update dates. The thing is dated outclassed by every other apple pencil application. Sadly they just don't seem to care about thats why it hasn't ben updated with features the community wants. I say abandon it and include the entire feature set into EN since penultimate by itself is just like using a a 5 year old piece of software with one good thing about it which is EN sync. 

Yes it appears that way.  This is unfortunate because Penultimate wouldn't take that much work to make it really useful.  I'm currently using Noteshelf since it syncs with Evernote.  Noteshelf's features are great but I don't like it's organizational structure.  You have to remember to designate a notebook for syncing when creating and whole notebooks sync as individual notes in Evernote.

[BrightHomesRE 31]

PDF annotation in EN would be fantastic.  I have been using PDF Expert for years to accomplish the task.