Exporting PDF with annotations made using "select area"

hamson

Hi there, I'm trying to export a PDF I marked up with annotations from within Zotero. When I do this using Save As->, all my highlights and shapes show up, but my annotations only show up on highlights--not the ones associated with an area.

It appears that other PDF viewers I have access to (e.g. Preview, PDF Expert) don't even support adding annotations to shapes, so this is probably the reason. However, wouldn't it be possible to just export these annotations as "Notes" for the purposes of the export, so that they're not lost altogether?

In summary what I'm wondering is--Is there any way to export all the notes taken on my PDF in Zotero, including those associated with shapes/"select area"?

Thanks-

martynas_b

While it's unusual to attach comments to shapes, the PDF specification allows it, and Acrobat Reader displays them accurately. Modifying this would prevent the re-importation of image annotations with comments into Zotero.

Well, not exactly an export, but you can use "Add Note from Annotations" to create a note item from all your annotations and comments.

hamson

Huh, I didn't realize Acrobat would render them correctly--thanks. I wonder why it's not incorporated into these other widely used PDF readers.