Upgrade StoragePDF Highlighting and annotation in Zotero
In cases where a downloaded PDF from an academic journal is "locked" such that you cannot use the annotation and highlight features in a PDF reader like Adobe, is there a way to do this in Zotero? Can you take a snapshot of an entire PDF (instead of just one page), for example, and use the Zotero bubble and highlight annotation features? I'm thinking this would provide a way of overlaying annotations on a PDF in Zotero.
Any options or ideas? Many Thanks!
Any options or ideas? Many Thanks!
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Adobe has a feature where you can enable commenting for a document and then you can comment/annotate even with the reader, no need for the for-pay acrobat products. PDFs without enabled annotations, however, you can still annotate with free viewers like FoxIt, pdfXchange (Windows), Skim, Preview (Mac) or Okular (linux).
I've never seen pdfs downloaded from journals that are completely locked down. If they are, there isn't any trick you can use with Zotero's html annotation feature, no. Depending on how they're locked down, I believe there are tools you can find to unlock them, though I'm not sure about either reliability or legality of that.
Zotero's HTML annotation feature is not going to be of any help in this - also, it's no longer maintained while devs are looking for a better alternative.