Support for PDF would add great value to Diigo.

http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/acrobat/PDFOpenParameters.pdf :

> Adobe defines parameters that allow you to open a PDF document
> with a command or URL that specifies exactly what to display (a
> named destination or specific page), and how to display it (using
> such characteristics as a specific view, scrollbars, bookmarks,
> annotations, or highlighting).

- I don't know whether that's current, but truncating the URL leads to
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/ :

> These documents also contain enough information to allow
> developers to write PDF consumer applications that read existing
> PDF files and interpret or modify their contents

Other requests relating to PDF include:
http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/557
http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/1322
http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/5682
http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/41118#9
http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/41118#11

Regards
Graham

Via http://www.webnotes.net/Product/WebNotesPro.aspx I experimented with WebNotes' PDF viewer.

Initial concerns:

* the PDF is copied

* the copy is converted from PDF presumably to some other format

* the conversion is represented in Flash

* the WebNotes copy/representation does not refer to the URL of original

* workflow: the WebNotes user's annotations can not be saved (converted) to PDF, so merger with annotations on the original PDF may be impossible

* attribution: unless I'm missing something, there's no way to distinguish between annotations of multiple users.

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Just because such things can be done, does not mean that they should be done.

IMO It's:

* easier to use a free application to annotate a PDF

- then share that PDF, if you wish

- with the option of other users adding annotations

* less desirable to pay a premium for conversion from PDF

- and disallow other users' annotations

- and lose workflow options.

Cross reference

PDF annotation

> No such a member named Lois Lacroux in this group

but I find the same behaviour.

From my bookmarked copy of
http://www.presence-pc.com/actualite/Photoshop-CS4-CUDA-31630/
I gain annotated link
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/63211ea9e05460091a1f16a179ffe89a which results in

> Sorry, the page you requested was not found.
>
> redirecting to original page:

but the redirect does not occur (this non-redirection is familiar to me…).

I wondered, is it an issue with trailing slashes? Evidently not;
http://evo.caltech.edu/evoGate/ bookmarks properly and I gain annotated link
http://www.diigo.com/annotated/efdc1da065be82a9302625caa605fdf1

A more recent report of the same bug:

http://feedback.diigo.com/forums/76543-bugs/suggestions/1148433-ending-slash-in-url-truncated

Thanks. Comments at http://feedback.diigo.com/forums/76543-bugs/suggestions/1148433-ending-slash-in-url-truncated

Another one:
http://www.diigo.com/058zz
in Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP, and
in Safari 4 Public Beta (5528.16) fails to present or redirect to
http://www.taobackup.com/

http://www.diigo.com/annotated/b7f8d4017bcf149ddb2c8fefdcda4981
and some others above now work.

I'm not reviewing this topic in detail, let's assume that it's fixed.

Tag: resolved

Many thanks
Graham

> last "/" is omitted

The problem is already noted,
http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/toolbar-bookmark-this-trims-url-3984

> edit the url after it is saved

Please see http://www.diigo.com/annotated/3fd936a9810d2dd1b918afd847accaa8 and other topics referred from http://groups.diigo.com/Diigo_HQ/forum/topic/diigo-bookmarks-and-annotations-are-url-specific-8930

Opening post #1 has disappeared. A more recent report of the same bug:

http://feedback.diigo.com/forums/76543-bugs/suggestions/1148433-ending-slash-in-url-truncated

Is this by design, or an accident?

Thanks :-)

Bump, please, any progress on this?

http://diigo.com/0i4bq shows my highlight and my sticky note.

At the original page http://blog.clamav.net/2011/02/realtime-protection-with-clamav-on.html those annotations are no longer visible.

Diigolet 5.0b2

Reported in the UserVoice area:

Diigolet no longer shows my own public notes stuck to highlights

- http://uservoice.com/a/b4tJH
- 2011-07-23

http://diigo.com/0i4bq shows my highlight and my sticky note.

At the original page http://malwareresearchgroup.com/malware-tests/ those annotations are no longer visible.

Diigolet 5.0b2

Can't comment to a group
http://uservoice.com/a/6xjiP

Diigolet fails to show all group comments
http://uservoice.com/a/2ICOs

And so on.

Example

Whenever I view a page that Maggie has commented on, none of Maggie's comments are visible.

Making group data invisible to other members of the group really does **not** help group work.

From a Diigo Group work perspective, the recent designs of tools such as Diigolet seem to be massive regressions. I suspect that something basic has been overlooked.

We can not expect all members of all groups to use Firefox or Internet Explorer.

Consider, all the group comments in these and other groups:

http://groups.diigo.com/group/globaleducation?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/educators?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/edtechtalk?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/leadership?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/collaboration?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/11-Ancient-History?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/brain-optimization?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/psychology-the-science-of-human-nature?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/ksudigg?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/open-web?type=bookmark

http://groups.diigo.com/group/mustsee?type=bookmark

Hint: most of the are groups that are recommended by Diigo seem to include numerous group comments.

Removing all of this from Diigolet is a huge step backwards.

The Diigo banner 'Group Knowledge Repository' is no longer applicable for users of Diigolet. Hiding public information, hiding group shared information from other members of the group is really bad.

In response to Joel's post at http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/2901021#7 re: description as a possible workaround to Diigo interface problems

View Sam Richards: A radical experiment in empathy | Video on TED.com
* in Chrome extended with Diigo 1.6.3.5
* in any browser with Diigolet 5.0b2.

View my annotated link http://diigo.com/0i0rs in Chrome, Safari or Opera.

Missing in all cases:

* all group comments
* all personal annotations
* my personal description.

Since Diigolet has been butchered, I ran Firefox for a few minutes.

Diigo 5.1.0.26 add-on, no option to add a private comment.

What on earth is going on?

A huge regression for sharing information, which was previously a selling point of Diigo.

Floating notes, placement of which are unpredictable, are terribly **MESSY** compared to neat presentation of a page comment.

(The word 'sticky' is misleading. You can put a note somewhere, but there's no guarantee that anyone else will see that note in the same place.)

It was recognised years ago that many viewers of floating notes found their presentation terribly intrusive, spam-like - probably because of the floating effect.

For me, this is probably the nail in the coffin of Diigo. When problems with comments began I stopped using Diigo to share information. The idea of Diigo for group work is now totally unappealing. Too toy-like.

This is a great shame, in the past Diigo was so much more useful for sharing information … for group work, it is becoming in some ways really ugly.

Overlapping with another topic, expecting members of a group to communicate without comments is ABSURD.

Diigo remains good as a personal service but I can no longer recommend it for sharing information. Sorry.

I'm seeking alternatives.

Hi Joel

Apologies for my deep frustration. The underlying issue to many problems (not just private comments) is the complete lack of interface to comments in tools such as Diigolet.

Regression: Various Diigo tools make it impossible to read or add to group comments

As groups have no aggregated view, I'm reverting to re-sharing (copying repeatedly) to a group whenever I add a public comment.

(Public comments are otherwise not visible to groups.)

This topic 973002 appears amongst the roundup at http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/1269617

A related bug in the UserVoice area:

no annotations without toolbar

> Workaround

> v=p

http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/1716147 (2010-07-01),
v=p no longer working for lists.

Translated to http://uservoice.com/a/fAJaI (2010-11-17),
Presentation of lists should be cleaner, fuller and more focused

Example

http://www.diigo.com/list/globetot/astronomie?v=p is no different from
http://www.diigo.com/list/globetot/astronomie

I'll review this topic after Diigo 5 goes live.

> I'll review this topic after Diigo 5 goes live.

The issue remains; the view no longer works.

http://uservoice.com/a/5hXr0 (2011-02-17):
lists: redirect v=p to print=1 (backward compatibility)

Diigo 5.1.0.8 added to Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101026 Firefox/3.6.12

At http://www.tipb.com/2010/11/29/ios-42-bugs-exchange-2003-causing-problems/ when I present the Add Comment field in the Diigo sidebar, there's no option for privacy

At http://www.tipb.com/2010/11/29/ios-42-bugs-exchange-2003-causing-problems/

Diigolet 4.0b396 gets no further than

> Loading Diigolet…

> none of the functions (share, preview etc work

If you click the Share menu before the page has loaded, there will be no response.

Try reloading the page, then wait for the load to complete before clicking.

At http://diigo.com/0dvy5 a note that I stuck to text disclosed beneath 'BT Home Hub' appears out of context when the text is not disclosed.

Maybe an issue with Ajax.

Better than showing a note out of context would be, show the hint to the note only when the text is visible.

For sign in via https://secure.diigo.com/ there's security (with a mixture of insecure content).

For Diigolet, sign in via toolbar3.diigo.com:80 may be not secure.

For other interfaces to sign in to Diigo, I don't know the routine.

http://uservoice.com/a/dPHQz (2010 but not dated by UserVoice) is
secure and encrypt network traffic between the client and Diigo servers

> concerned about exposing my data

You might like to:

a) subscribe to earlier topics including
http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/546917 (2007-06-03),
Secure login?

b) vote for http://uservoice.com/a/dPHQz (2010 but not dated by UserVoice),
secure and encrypt network traffic between the client and Diigo servers

An earlier topic:
http://groups.diigo.com/group/Diigo_HQ/content/546917 (2007-06-03),
Secure login?

Diigo extension for Chromium/Chrome has no interface to comments.

Documentation

If this is a known issue, it's a major one, and should be mentioned at
http://help.diigo.com/tools/chrome-extension and https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oojbgadfejifecebmdnhhkbhdjaphole

Re Diigo for iOS (iPad), Joel wrote:

> we should add comments back soon.

http://uservoice.com/a/8qT4A
(2010-09-20) is
comments are invisible to users of the extension for Chromium, and some other products