{"id":1695,"date":"2013-09-22T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T07:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-09-22T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T07:02:35","slug":"mendeley-desktop-best-pdf-annotator-ubuntu-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/mendeley-desktop-best-pdf-annotator-ubuntu-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Mendeley Desktop: Best PDF Annotator for Ubuntu Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to annotate PDF file in Linux systems? Well, Mendeley Desktop is one of the best choice. Besides being able to highlight & add note to text \/ rectangle of PDF, it can also display definition of selected text from en.wikipedia.org, share the document via E-mail and sync library with Mendeley Web.<\/b><\/p>\n

\"Mendeley<\/a><\/p>\n

Features:<\/b><\/p>\n

Mendeley is available as a basic free version, and also in premium payable versions.<\/p>\n

  • Mendeley Desktop, based on Qt, runs on Windows, Mac and Linux.<\/li>\n
  • Automatic extraction of metadata from PDF papers.<\/li>\n
  • Back-up and synchronization across multiple computers and with a private online account.<\/li>\n
  • PDF viewer with sticky notes, text highlighting and full-screen reading.<\/li>\n
  • Full-text search across papers.<\/li>\n
  • Smart filtering, tagging and automatic PDF file renaming.<\/li>\n
  • Citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.<\/li>\n
  • Import of documents and research papers from external websites (e.g., PubMed, Google Scholar, Arxiv) via browser bookmarklet.<\/li>\n
  • BibTeX export\/file sync<\/li>\n
  • Private groups to collaboratively tag and annotate research papers.<\/li>\n
  • Public groups to share reading lists.<\/li>\n
  • Social networking features (newsfeeds, comments, profile pages, etc.).<\/li>\n
  • Usage-based readership statistics about papers, authors and publications.<\/li>\n
  • iPhone app<\/li>\n
  • iPad app<\/li>\n

    Install Mendeley Desktop in Ubuntu & Other Linux OSs<\/h3>\n

    For Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and others, download the DEB from the link below:<\/p>\n

    Mendeley Desktop for Ubuntu 32-bit<\/a> | Ubuntu 64-bit<\/a><\/p>\n

    You may check your system type (32-bit or 64-bit) via System Settings ->Details<\/i> utility. Once downloaded, install it via below command in terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T<\/u>). <\/p>\n

    sudo dpkg -i ~\/Downloads\/mendeleydesktop_*-stable_*.deb<\/pre>\n
    During installation, the Mendeley Ubuntu repository will be added to your list of software sources. You can then use the standard Ubuntu\/Debian software update tools to keep Mendeley up to date.<\/p>\n
    For other Linux, Windows, and Mac, download Mendeley Desktop installer from<\/b> this page.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
    Want to annotate PDF file in Linux systems? Well, Mendeley Desktop is one of the best choice. Besides being able to highlight & add note to text \/ rectangle of PDF, it can also display definition of selected text from en.wikipedia.org, share the document via E-mail and sync library with Mendeley Web. Features: Mendeley is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[625,624],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-app-review","tag-mendeley-desktop","tag-pdf-annotator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}