Annotating PDFs on-screen
Online journal articles, eBooks and documents often open as PDFs. You can annotate these directly on-screen, and save your annotated version.
The easiest way to do this uses Adobe Acrobat. This offers two basic annotating tools, found in the task bar at the top of the screen: highlighting and the ability to add comments.
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You will need to ensure you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your device; it is free to download.
When you have opened the PDF in your browser, click on the 'Download' icon on the top right-hand side of the document, then 'Open with', making sure Adobe Reader is selected. When you have finished reading and annotating, choose 'Save as' from the File menu to save it to your home-drive or another location.
Evernote also offers the capacity to annotate PDFs, as well as providing other useful note-making and record-keeping functions.
Tip: if you find that PDFs are not opening automatically in Adobe, you may need to change the settings on your browser. Look in Settings for options when you open a certain document type.
