line-weight Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Anders Blomberg said: Acrobat does have a freehand drawing tool among the comment tools. Is it one that is fluid enough that you can easily write hand-written text? Some apps have a kind of vector based freehand line tool but it's not really practical for rapid handwriting. Quote Link to comment
Anders Blomberg Posted March 10, 2022 Author Share Posted March 10, 2022 I don't have a Wacom or similar to draw with but I don't notice any delays when using the mouse. Seems to do some sort of vectorisation though. Quote Link to comment
mjm Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 On 12/20/2021 at 11:37 AM, Christiaan said: Have you tried opening a PDF in Preview.app, with thumbnails visible, and then dropping a separate PDF file onto the thumbnail area from the Finder? Works ever time Quote Link to comment
Pat Stanford Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 PDFPenPro (and I think PDFPen) offer the ability to export files as either standard PDF or Flattened PDF. I much prefer the markup tools in PDFPen to those in Preview and Acrobat. 3 Quote Link to comment
Christiaan Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 12 hours ago, Pat Stanford said: PDFPenPro (and I think PDFPen) offer the ability to export files as either standard PDF or Flattened PDF. I much prefer the markup tools in PDFPen to those in Preview and Acrobat. I've never come across this one before. Took it for a spin and it seems really good. And it includes great OCR and ability to edit text. Impressive. Quote Link to comment
line-weight Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Feels a bit expensive at £70 or so though. Eg Affinity Photo costs £40 or 50. 2 Quote Link to comment
bob cleaver Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Preview app gets a good review here with many issues covered : https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mac-power-users/id458066753?i=1000553099829 1 Quote Link to comment
E|FA Posted March 11, 2022 Share Posted March 11, 2022 Depending on your other needs, you might find that PDFpen (not pro version) is less expensive via a SetApp subscription: https://setapp.com I wish I had discovered this before I had already purchased some of the included apps. I am not affiliated with the site, just a happy customer. 1 Quote Link to comment
E|FA Posted March 14, 2022 Share Posted March 14, 2022 On 12/16/2021 at 2:09 AM, Christiaan said: It should also go without saying that Vectorworks is missing a trick here with their own Nomad app. It too can't dimension. It can measure (although I find it doesn't work on my Viewports for some reason) but it can't add these measurements as a dimension markup and it can't draw a manual dimension markup either. We can only sketch them free hand. Nomad on iPad was just updated to version 11.0. I'm curious if these items have been improved. I haven't had a chance to check. Quote Link to comment
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