Free pdf reader that supports taking notes (and bookmarks)

Question

I learned about the PDF possibility of taking notes which are then stored with the document, usefull when reading ebooks. If the note taker also supports some math notation, that would be wonderful! Which free PDF reader can do this? (I am using Lubuntu 12.10)

Answer 1

I suggest you try these two programs and choose the one that better fits your needs.

Xournal

sudo apt-get install xournal

All annotations are hand made (so to speak). You can print them on the PDF, if you want, or you can set them apart.

Mendeley

Download from here. Very useful to keep track of your research notes.

Answer 2

Xournal would be worth taking a look at. Annotations and modifications are stored in a separate file but can be easily exported to PDF.

I don't think there's any PDF editor out there that supports any kind of sophisticated math notation, but I might be mistaken.

Answer 3

PDF-X-Change Viewer is fairly good. You have to run it under wine, though (don't downvote me for that :).

• You can read up on it here: Finally, real PDF annotating under Linux! (with help from Wine)

• Or you could look at pdfedit.

Answer 4

Try qpdfview . It is fast, customizable and has rudimentary annotation support.

A recent version can be installed by adding this launchpad ppa.

Answer 5

You could also try Okular. Now you can actually export annotations to PDFs in Okular (this was not possible until recently): http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdegraphics/okular/annotations.html

It seems Okular has to be built with Poppler at least version 0.20. It works with Ubuntu 13.04.

Answer 6

Evince 3.6.1 now supports adding annotations and bookmarks (proper PDF bookmarks), that are saved with the document.