How do I import PDF files into OneNote

[Gods-Will]

Does anyone know whether you can use OneNote to "write" on PDF files? I am a
student and many of the lecture slides are distributed electronically in PDF
files. I bought a tablet pc laptop with the hopes of taking notes directly
on the slides (handwriting). How do I do this? I have thought that perhaps
by buying the Adobe Acrobat software (not just the Adobe Reader) might allow
this, but I don't want to spend the money just to find out it doesn't work.
(I don't need Acrobat otherwise)
HELP!
Thanks

 

[RK Henry]

Does anyone know whether you can use OneNote to "write" on PDF files? I am a
student and many of the lecture slides are distributed electronically in PDF
files. I bought a tablet pc laptop with the hopes of taking notes directly
on the slides (handwriting). How do I do this? I have thought that perhaps
by buying the Adobe Acrobat software (not just the Adobe Reader) might allow
this, but I don't want to spend the money just to find out it doesn't work.
(I don't need Acrobat otherwise)

Your question intriques me, since I could have used this trick a few
months ago if I'd thought of it. Just illustrates the usefulness of
fora such as this one. I have Adobe Acrobat and it's a very useful
application for my needs, but you won't need it for this solution:

Download the OneNote Image Writer powertoy and install it. It allows
you to print to OneNote as if it were any other printer. Then just
open the PDF and print to the ON Image Writer printer.

You'll also need to experiment with the printer dialog settings for
the ON Image Writer or it may clip the right side of the PDF.

One experiment to avoid is the checkbox "Choose paper source by PDF
page size." Normally, the Image Writer will try to print to a standard
sized page and that's probably ok for most needs. The print dialog
previewer suggests that the "Choose paper source.." check box might
scale the OneNote page exactly to the size of the slide size in the
PPT/PDF document. What it does instead is crash the spooler. Avoid
that and most other settings seem to work fine.

RK Henry

 

[John Waller]

Download the OneNote Image Writer Powertoy:

http://www.analogreality.com/onenotepowertoys/OneNoteImageWriter.htm

 

[EMRhelp.org]

Does anyone know whether you can use OneNote to "write" on PDF files? I am a

student and many of the lecture slides are distributed electronically in PDF
files. I bought a tablet pc laptop with the hopes of taking notes directly
on the slides (handwriting). How do I do this?

This is of course one of the most obvious potential features of
OneNote. Simply put, Microsoft is scared of PDF and never supports it
in any app they create. They will come out with their OWN (no doubt
bastardized) version of PDF soon, called Metro. Ummm... wake up M$, no
one wants Metro and I hope it's a global failure.

To ink on PDFs, the choices are limited.
1) PDF Annotator - apparently it's been souped up. check it out.
2) Scansoft's PDF Converter Professional 3 seems OK at this. It really
bogs down my PC though. I'll be testing it further.

 

[Chris H.]

No, Adobe owns PDF. Microsoft would be in big trouble if the company
stepped in and started re-writing Adobe's functionality. You should be
complaining to Adobe for not making their applications inflexible.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -

 

[EMRhelp.org]

M$ should support the documents users want.
That is PDF.

Adobe's support for ink is horrible.

Finally we agree on something.

(double checks to see if there are two blue moons in the sky.)

 

[Chris H.]

How can Microsoft support something which Adobe won't allow? You seem to
intentionally miss that point.
--
Chris H.
Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
Expert Zone -

 

[John Waller]

How can Microsoft support something which Adobe won't allow?

Get Bill G to purchase Adobe in accordance with normal Microsoft strategy?
;-)

 

[David Cleland]

Get Bill G to purchase Adobe in accordance with normal Microsoft strategy?

or use the print to Onenote application that comes as part of the Education
Pack - it can be downloaded at www.tabletpc.com

(I only discovered this yesterday but it is an ace tool)

David

 

[EMRhelp.org]

LOL