Best PDF Markup Option

[andy roddy]

As a new SP2 owner, I'm very excited about the possibility of using one device to store all my PDFs and be able to mark them up. (previously, I would use a Note 10.1 to do the markups, and a third of the time the markups never made it back to my laptop)

I have used the built-in Reader app, and it is decent for basic hand markups. My biggest concern with that is that it only allows 5 files to be open at once. In many cases, I need to be able to go back and forth between a dozen PDFs, and I don't want to have to open and close files when switching between them. It would be even better if the app would allow you to "group" files and save the groups, so I wouldn't have to open a new set of files for each meeting I'm going to - just select a group and they would all appear.

I'm trying out Drawboard, which is promising, but it has been buggy for me so far. The developer has been responsive.

Does anyone have any experience with other good apps or desktop programs that allow you to have multiple files open and mark them up?

Thanks

 

[xboxonthego3]

Hmmm. I wonder if you could use One note. You could print the PDFs to One Note to edit. And have multiple PDFs to choose from. Then save them as PDFs again. Sounds more of hassle though. Not sure how well One Note would handle PDFs with a lot of pages though. Might be something to look into.

 

[andy roddy]

I've looked into that, but the process of converting a PDF to OneNote is cumbersome, and then I don't think I could send the marks up as a PDF to someone else (without saving BACK to PDF possibly, but that involves a lot more steps than just marking up PDFs natively).

I'd rather live with the 5-file limit in reader than go through the conversion process.