A new toolbar will appear under the toolbar with two icons for adding text annotations and adding highlight annotations. In Ubuntu 16.04 and later, click the toolbar icon that looks like a notepad. You should now see List and Add tabs under the dropdown menu. Select Annotations from the dropdown menu.
At the top of this side pane, there is a dropdown menu with options like Thumbnails, Index and Annotations (some of which may be dimmed for some documents). If you do not have a visible side pane on the left side of the opened document's window, click View -> Side Pane or press F9 to make the side pane visible. The evince package which is built-in in Ubuntu and is called Document Viewer can add annotations to PDFs.Įvince 3.18.2 from the Ubuntu 16.04 default repositories has support for highlight annotations and moving annotation icons to a different position on the page.
