Matthew Holden

Software for PDF and Tablet PC users that truly enables and shows what the digital and paperless office can be like.

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The paperless office was once touted as the marvel of the future. However, with increased computing power and the ease in which to email and print documents actual paper production actually doubled from 1980 to 2000.

If, like me, you want to digitise your office and are sick of paper documents, photos, plans, microfiche and so on you can use the Adobe PDF generation products. However it is not easy to alter or annotate those documents.

Here steps in PDF Annotator.

A software program for PDF and Tablet PC users that truly enables and shows what the digital and paperless office can be like.

Review:

People are often amazed at how quickly I can turn around contracts, documents, agreements and other documents that are sent to via a PDF format. One of my secret software tools is a brilliant piece of software called PDF Annotator by German software producer GRAHL Software.

Designed specifically for Tablet PC’s, this application takes a standard PDF document and lets you digitally write and annotate it. You can write comments, mark corrections, apply your signature, highlight certain areas.

Many options available: different colour inks, pen thicknesses, colour highlighters and a “typewriter” mode where it is easier to use traditional type.

For one of the MBA courses I taught in Singapore, I asked all students to submit their course papers to me via PDF. I used PDF Annotator to make all comments, remarks and, of course, their final grade!

Once you have made your changes, save the PDF file and you can then send that file as a regular PDF via email and the receiver will not know how you have made your changes.

For some the price might be daunting but it is worth the money. I purchased the original version 1.5x series and there has been a recent, major upgrade to version 2.0x which offers even more features.

We would like to see future versions to be available for Macintosh.

This application is a great example of how software and technology can make users lives easier and more efficient; it’s reliable, does the job intended and is an essential tool for the “paperless” office user. M