PDFs

Open a PDF from Files to read it alongside your notes. Use Find to search its text, or open Outline for bookmarks, comments and page thumbnails. You can drag across text, even across pages, to select and copy it.

Link a passage to a note

Select the passage, then right-click and choose Copy Link to Selection. Paste the link into a note, for example [[paper.pdf#page=1&selection=0,6,0,15|a useful result]]. Accent highlights the passage in the PDF, and clicking the highlight opens the note. Following the link from the note returns to that passage. The highlight lives in the note, so sharing the PDF alone will not carry it. If you need marks in the PDF itself, choose Export Highlights from the page menu.

Draw and arrange pages

Select Drawing in the header to open the tool ring. It offers a pen, highlighter, eraser, line, rectangle, circle and an Adjust tool for moving or resizing strokes. Choose a width or colour from the tool’s options. If a stylus is connected, it draws while the mouse selects text. To draw with the mouse instead, turn on Draw with the Mouse in Preferences.

Use the thumbnails in Outline to move pages by dragging them. Their buttons insert or delete a page, and the page menu offers the same actions. You can also drop another PDF between pages to insert its pages there. Press Ctrl+Z to undo a stroke or page edit. Accent saves these edits in the PDF and updates page links in your notes when pages move.

Print, export and colours

Use Print… or Export as PDF… to share the PDF with your ink and note highlights. The original PDF stays as it was. The viewer can recolour pages to match your theme, and Invert PDF Colours changes one document’s appearance. You can turn PDF recolouring off in Preferences.

See Keyboard shortcuts for reading and drawing keys. On Android, PDF reading and links work differently.