Open the Drawing tools drop-down menu in the Comment
Toolbar (part of the Main Toolbar) to access drawing tools. Choose
from the following:
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Line
Choose this tool, click and keep the left mouse button pressed
to start drawing a line. Release the mouse to finish.
To resize or rotate a line, choose the Hand tool, click the line, then
hover the mouse over its endpoint to get this cursor
and start transforming. |
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Rectangle
Select this tool, click and keep the left mouse button pressed
to start drawing a rectangle; move from its top-left corner to
its bottom-right one, then release the mouse.
To scale a rectangle, hover the mouse over its bottom-right corner
to get this cursor and
do the transformation. |
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Pencil
Choose this tool then click to draw freehand lines on the PDF.
Use the eraser to remove any part of a freehand line. |
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Oval
Select this tool, click and drag with the left mouse button
to draw an oval. Select it with the Hand
tool to resize it. |
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Polygon
Select this tool, then click to start drawing a line, click
again to draw more connected lines. To connect your last and first
sides to complete the polygon, double-click, or right-click and
choose Complete. |
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Polygon Line
Select this tool and click to start drawing a polygonal line.
Set angles by clicking again. To finish, double-click with the
tool, or right-click and choose Complete.
A polygon line is not a closed shape – it is a set of connected
straight lines. |
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Cloud
Select this tool and click repeatedly to draw a polygon. Double-click
to finish it, the cloud appears in the shape of the polygon. |
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Eraser
Select this, click and keep the left mouse button pressed to
erase part or all of a freehand line drawn with the
Pencil tool. |
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Hammer
This tool works only with polygons or polygon lines. Click with
the hammer on any angle to remove it and have the two neighboring
sides reduced to one. Resulting polygons must have at least 3
sides. Click with the hammer at any point on a polygon side and
drag this point to a new location to change one side into two.
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Properties
Select the Hand tool and right-click
on any edge of a drawing object for its shortcut menu. Choose Properties
to modify object appearance, view its revision history, or redefine its
Author and Subject. Select Set Status
to change the Review status of
a drawing object. To pass judgement on the review status, select Migration. (For details see the
Comments panel.) Choose Reply
to add a Note to the object, or Set Appearance
as Default Properties to use the current object’s properties as
the norm for all newly drawn objects of the same type.
Note
You can add lines or polygons that show screen or scaled
measurements.