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How to Mark Up PDFs in Acrobat Reader Like a Trapeze Artist: A Quick Start Guide
Photo taken at a performance by the Great Royal Circus in Kochi, India, on September 4, 2010. The acrobat is holding on to the bar with his teeth! Recently, I was asked by a client to edit (mark up or annotate; although these terms are often used interchangeably, there is a distinction which will be made clear a little later) a PDF document, and it looked as though many more such jobs would be assigned to me in the future. In the distant past, I had edited PDFs regularly, bec
Mar 10, 2025
Street Reader 3: Reading in the Rain
A lottery ticket seller takes a break. He's well equipped for the rainy day. And yes, reading and rainy days are made for each other....
Aug 31, 2022
The Atomic Typo
The typo is the bane of the copyeditor. However careful I am, I'll invariably find a handful during my final read. It could be an extra...
May 7, 2021
Roadside Reader 1
I saw him daily on my morning commute. His house was the wall of a park, and sometimes he was stretched out on the wall, asleep. In the...
Apr 6, 2021
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