I’d love to have a way to export PDFs with their highlights so that I can share the annotated version of the PDF with friends.
Right now, the highlights are stored separately in the PDF’s .edn file, which isn’t a format in which I’d ever share the data (though it’s really nice for personal use!).
I’m not sure where Logseq save the pdf annotation (probably in some internal database), but it’s not stored in the pdf itself.
My use case required open pdf from both zotero & logseq, but I always annotate and take notes in Logseq, it would be great if I can see the logseq highlight in the zotero itself.
Really much needed feature. At the moment I do highlights/annotations in PDF Expert, then import the processed PDF into Logseq just to highlight it here again, which leads to redundant work.
I am very glad to share all of you above that this feature can be achieved through another plugin: Doc View Exporter with github page:Doc View Exporter.
Although you have to first generate a html file first, but the annotations will also be printed out and you can have a try on this.
Mac Users: You can just open the .pdf stored in LogSeq’s file system in preview and then highlight from there so that it remains with the page and is able to be exported but, yes, this means you have to back through your highlights to create LogSeq-compatible links and this is rough/not good. This is my current (redundant) workflow so, yes, I support this improvement here. (I guess Acrobat Reader can be used too but opening files in preview on mac is very fast and native to Macs without an additional app.)
Sorry, can you expand more on this topic? I’m currently trying to work this out in order to highlight in pdf trough the Mac Preview app and easily export to Logseq…