also sprach Hanspeter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.08.13.2218 +0100]: > have a look at > > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ > > sounds promising. never tried it though.
This looks pretty interesting. Thanks.
First impressions:
- it's Java.
- Ugh!
- it starts pretty quickly, even though it's Java
- the user interface is sluggish. It's Java...
- there are no quick keys, it's all mouse-based
- you can create annotations, which are like post-its. You can
move them around, edit them. This is really nice.
- those annotations are stored in ~/.Multivalent, indexed by the
absolute file name. This means I cannot easily move files
around, or take the annotations with me to another machine.
- you cannot load a file from the command line, you have to use
the GUI to open it. There are no "recent files".
- you cannot save any preferences
- most of the options, including the highlighting are greyed out.
I have no idea how to enable them. The documentation talks about
PDF 1.5, but I can only create PDF 1.4 (ps2pdf14). Not sure if
that's the cause.
- There is no undo. However, the file in ~/.Multivalent is
pseudo-XML and can thus be easily edited.
So, uh, this is better than nothing, but not much better than
keeping a plain text file next to the PDF and writing notes in
there. I can only hope they work more on it, and do it quickly.
Thanks for the pointer though!
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