While I understand Words pen support isn't all that, it's old school deigned for pagnation, where as ON is designed for the modern era, sans printing with endless note taking. Not sure what they have to do for note taking outside of collaboration that's now available but I do think there needs to be something for more sophisticated users. If it's irrelevant, why are you using PDFs, that was my point I guess The only reason to go to PDFs is to share the output with someone else?. While that's true, not everyone has it, so some Web app might be best, to allow people just it share a couple notes or share mark-ups etc? A cross-platform format would be best, but it's kind of irrelevant because onenote is itself cross platform. True, I don't think PDFs are the way forward. The first three pages appeared correctly, the last twelve did not. It's okay to cull options and customization, but please make sure the functionality that you carry over actually works.ĮDIT: This was done today on a 15 page (typical for a final exam) PDF. You can't kill off desktop OneNote if you're not going to bring the functionality from it.

This is a more important issue in the coming COVID times, as the Surface product is largely marketed toward students, yet this one bug cripples a huge use case of Surface (or any pen-enabled Windows device) for students. Switching over to my desktop PC and opening up old desktop OneNote 2016, syncing, and printing the very same document works just fine. Either a.) I open the file in a PDF viewer (edge or chrome) and there is no data in the PDF (and it is sometimes a 0 byte file), or b.) I can open the PDF, see the markups I made, but not the original document I was marking up. I have printed a page to OneNote, marked it up with the pen, and then printed it back to PDF. To this day, Microsoft has not fixed the BS in the new OneNote app (which looks great and has a lot of things that make it better than the old Desktop version) where printing to PDF doesn't work correctly.

Cannot print to onenote