User manual

Marking up documents using drawing tools
You can use the drawing tools to mark up a document with lines, circles, and other shapes,
called drawing markups. You can also add a note to the pop-up window of any drawing
markup. Drawing tools appear on the Drawing Markups toolbar and its subset, the
Drawing toolbar. When selecting a drawing tool, consider the effect you want:
● The Rectangle tool , the Oval tool , the Arrow tool , and the Line tool let
you create simple shapes.
● The Polygon tool creates a closed shape with multiple segments. The Polygon Line
tool
creates an open shape with multiple segments.
● The Cloud tool works the same way as the Polygon tool, but the segments turn into a
cloud shape when you finish drawing.
● The Pencil tool creates free-form drawings, and the Pencil Eraser tool removes
the pencil markups that you scrub.
● The Dimensioning tool lets you create lines with special properties that measure
dimensions in the PDF document. (See Using the Dimensioning tool.)
To use the drawing tools to create a markup:
1. To select a drawing tool, choose one of the following:
● Tools > Drawing Markups > [drawing tool] or Show Drawing Toolbar.
● Comment & Markup > Drawing Markups Tools > Show Drawing Toolbar.
2. Add a markup to the PDF document:
● If you're drawing a rectangle or oval, drag across the area where you want the drawing
comment to appear.
● If you're drawing a line, drag across the area where you want the line to appear. If you're
drawing an arrow, the arrow pointer appears where you begin drawing.
● If you're drawing a polygon or polygon line, click a starting point, move the pointer and
click to create a segment of the polygon, and then continue clicking to create segments of
the polygon. When you finish drawing the polygon, click the starting point or double-click
to close the shape. Double-click to end a polygon line.
● Use the same method to draw a cloud. When you finish, the cloud shape appears.
To draw a straight or diagonal line, a square, or a circle, press Shift while you draw
the markup. Make sure that you don't release Shift before you release the mouse button.
3. Using the Hand tool, double-click the markup to open the pop-up window, and type a note.
4. (Optional) Click the close button in the pop-up window. A note icon appears to the right
of the markup to indicate the presence of text in the pop-up window.
To delete a drawing markup:
Select the drawing markup, and press Delete.
To change the appearance of a drawing markup:
Do one of the following:
● Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Mac OS) the drawing markup, and then choose
Properties. Change options on the Appearance tab.
● Using the Hand tool , select the drawing markup. Right-click (Windows) or Control-
click (Mac OS) the toolbar area, and then choose Properties Bar. Specify options in the
Properties toolbar to change the appearance of the selected shape.
For more information on changing comment properties, see Changing the appearance of
comments.
Related Subtopics:
Marking up AutoCAD drawings (Windows)
Grouping markups