PDFs are great, portable, cross-platform documents that you can read on your Mac, your iPad or iPhone, or on a PC. But this ubiquitous file format is also useful when you need to share works in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Way back in the early 1990s, Adobe released the Portable Document Format (PDF). Ever since, PDFs have been a key tool in getting ...

Academics work with a lot of PDF files—journal articles, scanned ILL materials, and, increasingly, historical documents available through archives such as Google Books. After my first few posts here ...

Two weeks ago I asked ProfHacker readers, “How Do You Organize and Annotate PDFs?”, and you rose to the challenge. I can’t recount the entire discussion here (though it’s well worth reading through in ...

PDF documents today are all the range. From that eBook you’re immersing in through your mobile device or PC, office documents to submitting files to clients and coworkers PDFs are now the standard.

There are a variety of scenarios where it’s helpful to create a PDF version of a webpage or article. While doing this on a Mac may be more widely known, there’s an easy shortcut on iOS for the ...

If you flip back through your course notes, you’ll see that last week we explored using Preview to edit and annotate images. But as I explained in that lesson, Preview has powers beyond images. It’s ...

"Want to annotate PDFs directly in Microsoft Whiteboard? Here’s a step-by-step tutorial on how to import, use, and collaborate with PDFs during meetings or in the classroom. #MicrosoftWhiteboard ...

People who use a Chromebook are likely familiar with at least a couple of common ways to work with the Portable Document Format (PDF) created by Adobe in 1993 that preserves a document’s layout and ...

I have a wacom tablet, and I need to review a bunch of PDF manuscripts for colleagues abroad. <BR><BR>Seems the smart thing to do would be to superimpose hand-written notes and sketches on the PDFs ...