Two annoyances that I have always had with ebooks and pdf material is that when I'm reading I like to highlight important info for future reference. Most readers (like Adobe) only allows you to highlight files that you have document rights to it, which I don't think makes any sense.
The other problem is that I read the same book between multiple computers and multiple platforms. I always have to write down the page I read last, and this is a bit annoying.
After doing a lot of searches I was finally able to find a pdf reader (PDF-XChange Viewer) that allows me to highlight text and save that information. Even better, they have a portable version so you can have the book, program and saved data (highlight and page) on a USB device and access it between machines.
For my utmost surprise the program works under wine and also reads the saved data.
Hot to get it working
1- Download the portable version of the program and unzip it to your flash device (either on Linux or Windows)
http://www.docu-track.com/download/PDFX_Vwr_Port.zip
2- Install wine on your Linux machine if you have not already done so
| # Ubuntu (8.10) $ sudo aptitude install wine $ winecfg |
3- Create a script in the flash drive within the program folder to open the program on Linux
| $ echo -e '#!/bin/bash\n\nwine PDXCview.exe &' > PDFXCview_for_Linux |
You should now be able to open the program on either Windows or Linux and see your highlighted text.
8 comments:
Thanks man for this post.
damn good software!! Thanks a lot!
You guys can avoid using virtualizing Windows all together and use Marqed. It's a free webapp: http://www.marqed.com check it out
For linux: Use Okular.
thanks. nice software. I used preview in mac. this one beats everything. now i use windows. i love it!!!
Thanks a lot for sharing this.
Even the free version is very useful
Thanks for sharing this.
The free version is good enough
Thanks again.
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