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Read & Annotate

Read and Annotate PDF's

  1. Text select tool - Use this tool to select text within your document. You can use this to copy and paste relevant passages or to apply highlighting. 

  2. Highlight tool - Use this tool to apply highlighting to text within the document. The highlight tool will apply whichever color is currently set as active.

  3. Sticky Note tool - Use this tool to create sticky notes at specific locations within the document. Select wherever you want the note to appear.

  4. Color selection - the reference manager supports highlighting in a number of different colors. Use this menu to select the active color. 

  5. Fit to width or height - Use these buttons to fit the PDF to the available width or height.

  6. Zoom - Use these buttons to zoom into and out of the PDF.

  7. Info - Use this button to open the Info panel. For more details about the tabs in the Info panel see the ‘Annotations’ tab.

  8. Highlighted text - Select a passage of highlighted text to modify or remove the highlighting.

  9. Sticky note - Sticky notes within the document will be represented by icons. Select the icon to reveal the contents of the sticky note.

  10. Library - To navigate back to your references select the 'Library' button.

Sticky Notes and Highlighting PDFs

To see all sticky notes on the PDF select the 'Info' button and select the 'Annotations' tab.

  1. Sticky note - All sticky notes from the selected PDF are visible here.
  2. Close - Select this to close the panel.