reMarkable editable pdf
One of the main issues I've had so far, is that I sometimes want to add a file from my mac to the remarkable, and still be able to interact with the graphical elements of it on the reMarkable. Simple example: Adding a pdf page with a circle as a pdf to the reMarkable only makes it a passive background layer by default.
To the rescue is Drawj2d: https://sourceforge.net/p/drawj2d/
What I needed to install to get it up and running was:
- An updated version of Java (brew install --cask temurin)
- Downloading and extracting Drawj2d, then moving the folder to /Applications
- Creating a wrapper script so drawj2d works as a terminal command:
printf '#!/bin/zsh\nexec java -jar /Applications/Drawj2d/drawj2d.jar "$@"\n' > ~/drawj2d_wrapper
sudo cp ~/drawj2d_wrapper /usr/local/bin/drawj2d
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/drawj2d
rm ~/drawj2d_wrapper
After this I can run a command on the pdf file as follows:
echo image pageA4.pdf 1 0 0 0.7 | drawj2d -Trmn ;# reMarkable 2
echo image pageA4.pdf 1 0 0 0.8 | drawj2d -Trmdoc ;# reMarkable Paper Pro
The generated .rmdoc file can be drag and dropped into the reMarkable mac app, and now its editable on the device.
Would love to see this being possible in a more native way (like being able to export .rmdoc files from the reMarkable app directly).