remarkable_printer VS rm-pdf-tools

Although RCU has a virtual printer, for printing from any system application, this can also be accomplished by installing evidlo/remarkable_printer. It is a fantastic piece of software that turns your tablet into a network printer, so you don't have to rely on reMarkable's limited and flaky plugins.

There is evidlo/remarkable_print, too, which gets installed to the tablet and makes it act as a network printer.

I use this: https://github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_printer

Print to rM - I love using this, such as when I need to read a pdf for a class, documentation, or even a news article. Just set it up depending on your OS, and then print from browser/file explorer or whatever program, to your rM. You can find it here.

This works well. All you need to do is get something in PDF or PNG format then "print to reMarkable". Literally takes like 2-3 seconds on average, maybe 10 seconds if laggy network.

printing to my reMarkable

A very creatively done workflow for sure. A tip I would perhaps use, permitting your work computer allows it is Print to reMarkable. I haven't set it up as I use rM Cloud but it does look pretty unobtrusive and promising. Seems more like you're just adding a bog standard printer to your list than any extra software.

Evidlo/remarkable_print is a great piece of software that lets you print directly from Windows to the reMarkable. It installs to the reMarkable, so it's not a plugin installed in the PC, so the tablet will appear as a regular printer on your network and there is zero extra software required on any PC. You can print to the tablet from any operating system, from any program.

I use this extension https://github.com/Evidlo/remarkable_printer which let me print documents to RM. I’ve added a printer to my work PC and print Word-documents to read.

I am not aware of such a hack. Currently you can convert a pdf page to an editable rM notebook page using my java program drawj2d. But you'd run it on your computer and upload the notebook afterwards. Drawj2d could be run on the rM tablet (it just needs an JRE for arm) but it is not of much use until we find a way to trigger a conversion. An approach (similar to skius/rm-pdf-tools) would be to have a folder (e.g. "Pdf2rm-Input") on the device and whenever you copy a pdf into it, the conversion starts. Maybe a linux specialist reading here knows how to detect a new file in the directory...

On other computer: Otherwise, you could have the tablet connected to the cloud and use a computer to listen for changes on the files, similar to skius/rm-pdf-tools

The tool can be found here: https://github.com/skius/rm-pdf-tools

For those of you interested nonetheless (or to bookmark for later), here's the repo (with a more in-depth description as well): https://github.com/skius/rm-pdf-tools