PDF for Lawyers: Tablet PC's 'digital ink' not PDF compatbile

July 06, 2004

Tablet PC's 'digital ink' not PDF compatbile

Phil Windley has an interesting post about the limitations of the Tablet PC's digital ink feature. Namely, that it doesn't work with PDF documents:

"About a month ago I bought a Tablet PC (HP T1100). Mostly I wanted to see how it worked, play with the form factor and so on. Tuesday I'm flying to DC for and NSF Review panel. I have about 15 proposals to comment on before I get there and they're in PDF format. I thought "The tablet is the perfect form factor for working on an airplane, especially since all I have to do is read and comment on the documents." How natural it would be to view the PDF document and write notes on it. Unfortunately, it can't be done as far as I can tell. This floors me. The Tablet's been out for two years and you still can't do digital ink on PDF documents. Wow!"

Truly unfortunate. As more lawyers and judges use PDFs they are going to learn about, and use, the commenting features that are available in the full version of Acrobat. Somehow you would expect Microsoft to address this deficiency in the digital ink software.

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