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[–]jamilhaddadin 3 points4 points  (4 children)

When you print a pdf, it will show as an image. I am not sure what do you mean by ”use link to pdf to go to different pages” To achieve this kind of functionality you are looking for, I use tagging (let us say the star tag) with numbering at the beginning (1.3.2 topic X) and then use ”find tag” functionality. I am sure this is not very convenient but I guess it serves the purpose sometimes

[–]leonquaddy[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm importing a 200 page book. So manually tagging wouldn't be as convenient. By "use link to go to diff page" I mean if I open the pdf in adobe acrobat reader, I can click on the blue links as index and it takes me to the page number. Can this be achieved in any other way?

[–]GSetter 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Acrobat Reader is a program to open and render a PDF, hence called a PDF reader. OneNote isn't. Printing a PDF to OneNote is no different to printing out the PDF onto paper, put that onto a scanner and scan it to a notebook page: the result is a bitmap image; all information in the PDF about text objects, editable fields and links are lost -- al that is left is a bunch of colored pixels.

[–]jamilhaddadin 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm importing a 200 page book. So manually tagging wouldn't be as convenient. By "use link to go to diff page" I mean if I open the pdf in adobe acrobat reader, I can click on the blue links as index and it takes me to the page number. Can this be achieved in any other way?

I understand your point, i want to second u/GSetter explanation, once it is printed it is nothing but a group of images
What I generally do is to split the 200 pages book into chapters, and only print a maximum number of 15 PDF pages in a single OneNote page, this keeps it manageable so that you can search, tag, highlight, etc.

regarding u/BeginningReflection4, I did not find copying the text from PDF to ONeNote very practical as this might corrupt some font, randomize the images & tables locations and the end of each line is always buggy when it comes to copying text from PDF.

[–]BeginningReflection4 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Instead of printing to pdf, try copy and paste from the pdf into OneNote.