Its extensive suite of annotation tools and natural inking capabilities come together to let it replace pens and paper. Overall, though, Drawboard PDF is an excellent choice for any construction, architecture or engineering business that needs its employees to edit PDFs. While a solidly built interface can afford to be rigid in parts, Drawboard provides few options to change it when you encounter problems. For example, the portion of the interface used to choose the pen tool can block one's view of the PDF itself, and resizing does nothing to solve this problem. Certain specific functions are hard to access, and the number of settings that Drawboard provides to redress this or change the interface is limited. And if you'd rather avoid that, you can drop sticky notes (or popup notes) wherever they're needed to stay.īut although from a perspective of what it can do, Drawboard PDF is nearly unmatched, it is not perfect in how it does it. When you're done, you can flatten your annotations onto the PDF itself if you'd like. You can write and erase easily, of course, without the mess pens and paper would make that, but you can also move existing annotations around freely, draw shapes, and highlight. Its stylus support is discussed at great length above, but the feeling it provides of using a natural pen works very well together with the ability to annotate a PDF just about any way using it. One of the biggest draws to Drawboard's PDF offering is that it is fantastic for annotation. Everything noted down, for good or for ill This is not a large issue but it is a possibility to keep in mind. Previously, this has happened temporarily as a result of operating system updates, before Drawboard itself was updated. Although no particular feature in the software itself triggers it, Drawboard PDF can occasionally work slowly or even crash entirely. There are some blemishes with this process, though. And although the software is designed to annotate existing PDFs – blueprints, documents, et al – its also like other free PDF tools online that can be used to create PDFs, type them up, insert images, add or delete pages, and most other basic function you'd find in, say, Adobe Acrobat.

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