martes, 13 de enero de 2015

Okular: how to work on PDF documents

Okular is a document viewer. The specific utility that I want to show you is that thanks to Okular you can work on documents in PDF format.

If you usually work with Linux, you can find the program and install it in the Software Manager.

Once you have installed the program, when you open it, you will see the following screen.



Now you can open the file that you want to work in clicking on "file" and looking for the document in your folder. I chose a legal translation text that talks about marriage contracts in German. This is an exercise that can be very helpful for translators, for example, to mark and remove vocabulary of a text and make notes or marks that later will help you for the translation.



In the top menu "tools" you will find the "review" function. When you press it, it will appear some tables on the left side of the document, that you have to select to make different marks on the text.



Among the functions that you can use, you can add notes to the document, highlight text and replace text, make freehand marks, underline text or make straight and different ways marks.