Upgrade StorageAvailable for beta testing: Reading Mode for PDFs
dstillman
Zotero Team
The latest Zotero beta adds Reading Mode for PDFs: a clean, reflowable view of the document, with adjustable font, size, and line spacing, and without the headers, footers, and multi-column layouts of the original. If an area of the PDF page can't be represented as text (images, tables, figures), it'll be rendered as shown in the original PDF, so you won't miss any content.
Most reading modes — in the apps that offer one for PDFs at all — are read-only. In Zotero's, you can keep annotating: you can highlight and underline text and add notes directly in Reading Mode, and those annotations show up in the normal PDF view as well. (Annotations made with the other tools — text, image, and ink — are shown only in the PDF view, though we may show them in the sidebar in a future version.) Your reading position carries over when you switch, too.
To turn it on, click the Reading Mode button in the reader toolbar.
Reading Mode is powered by the same custom document-analysis system behind the Read Aloud improvements in the latest beta, and we're still refining it. If a document doesn't look right in Reading Mode — missing text, mangled tables, etc. — let us know in a new thread.
Most reading modes — in the apps that offer one for PDFs at all — are read-only. In Zotero's, you can keep annotating: you can highlight and underline text and add notes directly in Reading Mode, and those annotations show up in the normal PDF view as well. (Annotations made with the other tools — text, image, and ink — are shown only in the PDF view, though we may show them in the sidebar in a future version.) Your reading position carries over when you switch, too.
To turn it on, click the Reading Mode button in the reader toolbar.
Reading Mode is powered by the same custom document-analysis system behind the Read Aloud improvements in the latest beta, and we're still refining it. If a document doesn't look right in Reading Mode — missing text, mangled tables, etc. — let us know in a new thread.