In this blog post we’ll show you some of the Drawboard PDF tools and features that are making marking up and collaborating on PDFs easier and more fun in 2023.
Most of these tools and features have been released in 2023 and are designed to help anyone who works with PDFs regularly to work faster and better, without paper. To see all Drawboard PDF tools and features check out our full feature set and plans.
With Ink to line you can draw perfectly straight lines with one swift stroke of your pen. Transform your freehand pen lines into neat straight lines by simply drawing and holding. Easily toggle smart line recognition on and off to suit the way you work.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
And with ink to shape, you can create perfect squares, triangles, circles and hexagons with your ink! Draw and hold with your finger, stylus or mouse to transform your freehand shapes into perfect polygons.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
Create beautiful lettering with the Calligraphy pen. Hand write calligraphy ink strokes seamlessly with the feel of pen on paper.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
With Audio Notes, you can record a voice note or upload an audio file and pin it to any area of your PDF document. Perfect for making quick notes to yourself, to colleagues, to students or anyone you’re collaborating on PDFs with.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
With Redaction, you can permanently remove text or sections from your PDFs. Whether you want to remove sensitive content like personal information from your documents or simply want to remove redundant content, the Redaction tool set can do the trick.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
With the Markup library you can save your annotations for repeated use. Simply mark up and right-click to save any annotation to your Markup Library. You can access your Markup Library on any document, any time.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
With Multi-window, you can view and mark up multiple PDF pages or documents at the same time. View multiple documents, or parts of the same document side-by-side! Not just view, but access your entire Drawboard PDF toolset too.
Quickly switch between version 1 and revision 2, questions and answers, handouts and notes, contract revisions… the list goes on.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
Keep on top of your annotations with this handy feature. Quickly see which annotations have been marked up by which collaborator and click any annotation in your list to instantly find it in your document.
Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users can access advanced filtering and sorting including date, author, position in document, tools, and color! You can also search your annotations list to instantly find text-based annotations.
Available to all users on iOS and Mac.
Tags offers a powerful way to manage your documents. Categorize your docs into work and home, team and individual projects, school subjects or work projects, and so much more. And unlike putting your doc in just a single folder – you can have multiple tags on the same document! Use tags to catalog your documents in a way that suits the way you work.
Available on all cloud documents.
Apply dashed lines, dotted lines, or a combination of both to your documents and drawings! In addition to this, you can add arrow tips, circles, stars and more to your lines! Utilize this feature with the custom colors to apply endless combinations of lines that are clearly distinguishable from each other.
Dash patterns are available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users across all platforms. Additional line styles are available to Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on the Windows app.
Grouping allows you to conveniently keep selected annotations together and easily edit the properties of multiple annotations at once.
Grouping is available to Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited users on Windows and on the web app and coming soon to iOS.
Select multiple annotations and align them left, top, right or bottom. The Align tool is perfect for keeping text annotations neatly aligned, or shifting markups into place. Use it to align as many annotations as you would like into place.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
Flip any drawing, markup or annotation on your document horizontally or vertically. The flip tool can also be used with the Snapshot tool to flip flattened content on your PDF. Modify your PDFs exactly how you need to.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
Create and store signatures with ease. You can use a font to sign or draw your signature with your finger or stylus.
Using a desktop device that isn’t a touch screen? No worries! With Drawboard PDF you can use the touch screen of your mobile device to draw your signature and then store in your signature bank.
Available to all users. All Pro plan users can add unlimited signatures to their signature bank. Basic users are limited to 2 signatures.
With Custom Templates you can create new documents or designs with your own customized page backgrounds to speed up your workflow. Your templates library is the perfect place to keep forms, digital planners or invoices for quick retrieval.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
Quickly customize the way you remove ink. Whole erase can be used to quickly remove entire ink annotations. Partial erase removes only segments of the ink.
Available to all users on Windows.
Assign custom hotkeys to your favorite tools and actions. Tailor your workflow to how you work best.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
All Drawboard PDF users can enjoy marking up and collaborating on PDFs across all devices including Windows, iPhone or Mac, Android and from the web browser. Mark up documents on your laptop, review on the go from your mobile device and share and collaborate on your tablet. Any device, anywhere.
Note: Drawboard PDF on Android is available to all Pro plan users.
Drawboard PDF is at the forefront of PDF markup and collaboration. To get started with Drawboard PDF, choose a plan that works for you.
In this blog post we’ll show you some of the Drawboard PDF tools and features that are making marking up and collaborating on PDFs easier and more fun in 2023.
Most of these tools and features have been released in 2023 and are designed to help anyone who works with PDFs regularly to work faster and better, without paper. To see all Drawboard PDF tools and features check out our full feature set and plans.
With Ink to line you can draw perfectly straight lines with one swift stroke of your pen. Transform your freehand pen lines into neat straight lines by simply drawing and holding. Easily toggle smart line recognition on and off to suit the way you work.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
And with ink to shape, you can create perfect squares, triangles, circles and hexagons with your ink! Draw and hold with your finger, stylus or mouse to transform your freehand shapes into perfect polygons.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
Create beautiful lettering with the Calligraphy pen. Hand write calligraphy ink strokes seamlessly with the feel of pen on paper.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
With Audio Notes, you can record a voice note or upload an audio file and pin it to any area of your PDF document. Perfect for making quick notes to yourself, to colleagues, to students or anyone you’re collaborating on PDFs with.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
With Redaction, you can permanently remove text or sections from your PDFs. Whether you want to remove sensitive content like personal information from your documents or simply want to remove redundant content, the Redaction tool set can do the trick.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
With the Markup library you can save your annotations for repeated use. Simply mark up and right-click to save any annotation to your Markup Library. You can access your Markup Library on any document, any time.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
With Multi-window, you can view and mark up multiple PDF pages or documents at the same time. View multiple documents, or parts of the same document side-by-side! Not just view, but access your entire Drawboard PDF toolset too.
Quickly switch between version 1 and revision 2, questions and answers, handouts and notes, contract revisions… the list goes on.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
Keep on top of your annotations with this handy feature. Quickly see which annotations have been marked up by which collaborator and click any annotation in your list to instantly find it in your document.
Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users can access advanced filtering and sorting including date, author, position in document, tools, and color! You can also search your annotations list to instantly find text-based annotations.
Available to all users on iOS and Mac.
Tags offers a powerful way to manage your documents. Categorize your docs into work and home, team and individual projects, school subjects or work projects, and so much more. And unlike putting your doc in just a single folder – you can have multiple tags on the same document! Use tags to catalog your documents in a way that suits the way you work.
Available on all cloud documents.
Apply dashed lines, dotted lines, or a combination of both to your documents and drawings! In addition to this, you can add arrow tips, circles, stars and more to your lines! Utilize this feature with the custom colors to apply endless combinations of lines that are clearly distinguishable from each other.
Dash patterns are available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users across all platforms. Additional line styles are available to Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on the Windows app.
Grouping allows you to conveniently keep selected annotations together and easily edit the properties of multiple annotations at once.
Grouping is available to Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited users on Windows and on the web app and coming soon to iOS.
Select multiple annotations and align them left, top, right or bottom. The Align tool is perfect for keeping text annotations neatly aligned, or shifting markups into place. Use it to align as many annotations as you would like into place.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
Flip any drawing, markup or annotation on your document horizontally or vertically. The flip tool can also be used with the Snapshot tool to flip flattened content on your PDF. Modify your PDFs exactly how you need to.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
Create and store signatures with ease. You can use a font to sign or draw your signature with your finger or stylus.
Using a desktop device that isn’t a touch screen? No worries! With Drawboard PDF you can use the touch screen of your mobile device to draw your signature and then store in your signature bank.
Available to all users. All Pro plan users can add unlimited signatures to their signature bank. Basic users are limited to 2 signatures.
With Custom Templates you can create new documents or designs with your own customized page backgrounds to speed up your workflow. Your templates library is the perfect place to keep forms, digital planners or invoices for quick retrieval.
Available to all Pro plan users on Windows.
Quickly customize the way you remove ink. Whole erase can be used to quickly remove entire ink annotations. Partial erase removes only segments of the ink.
Available to all users on Windows.
Assign custom hotkeys to your favorite tools and actions. Tailor your workflow to how you work best.
Available to all Pro Plus and Pro Unlimited plan users on Windows.
All Drawboard PDF users can enjoy marking up and collaborating on PDFs across all devices including Windows, iPhone or Mac, Android and from the web browser. Mark up documents on your laptop, review on the go from your mobile device and share and collaborate on your tablet. Any device, anywhere.
Note: Drawboard PDF on Android is available to all Pro plan users.
Drawboard PDF is at the forefront of PDF markup and collaboration. To get started with Drawboard PDF, choose a plan that works for you.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
We are a PDF and collaboration company. We believe that creating more effective connections between people reduces waste.
Our best work has been overtaken by busywork. That’s why we’ve created ways to help people get back to working wonders without any paper in sight.
Drawboard PDF lets you mark up and share with ease, and Drawboard Projects brings collaborative design review to architecture and engineering teams.
At Drawboard, we work our magic so our customers can get back to working theirs.
