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To draw a line, arrow, or rectangle, either drag across the area where you want the markup to appear, or click twice:
once to create the start point and once to create the end point.
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To draw a square or circle, or to draw line that's horizontal, vertical, or at a 45 degree angle, press Shift while you draw.
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To draw free-form lines using the Pencil tool
mouse button, move the pointer to a new location, and continue drawing. To erase parts of the drawing, select the
Pencil Eraser tool and drag across the areas of the drawing that you want to remove.
To edit or resize the markup, select it and drag one of the handles to make your adjustments.
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To add a pop-up note to the markup, select the Hand tool, and double-click the markup.
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(Optional) Click the close button in the pop-up note. A note icon appears to the right of the markup to indicate
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the presence of text in the pop-up note.
Note: To delete a drawing markup, select it and press Delete.
Group and ungroup markups
You can group two or more markups so that your comments function as a single comment. You might group
markups temporarily to move them to a new location or to modify their properties rather than editing each one
individually. Grouping also helps to distinguish your markups from other reviewers' markups in a document review.
Note: You cannot group text edit markups.
Group markups
1 Using the Select tool or the Hand tool, select a markup.
Ctrl-click/Command-click to select the markups you want to group.
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3 Right-click/Control-click within the selection, and choose Group.
Ungroup markups
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Right-click/Control-click the grouped selection, and choose Ungroup.
Add comments in a text box or callout
Commenting tools are available only in PDFs that have commenting enabled. PDFs in a review workflow typically
include commenting rights.
You can use the Text Box tool
adjust it to any size. A text box remains visible on the document page; it doesn't close like a pop-up note.
Another way to add a text box is simply to paste copied text into the PDF. Text font and size are based on the system
default settings.
Note: You can add comments to Japanese, Chinese, and Korean text with the Text Box tool, but you must have the Asian-
language resource files installed. Text boxes allow for horizontal text only.
You can use the Callout tool
to single out—but not obscure—a particular area of a document. Callout text boxes have three parts: a text box, a
knee line, and an end point line. You can resize each part by dragging a handle. The knee line can be resized in one
direction only; horizontal knee lines can be resized horizontally only; vertical knee lines can be resized vertically
only. The text box expands vertically as you type so that all text remains visible.
, drag where you want to begin drawing. You can release the
to create a box that contains text. You can position it anywhere on the page and
to create a callout text box. Callout text boxes are especially useful when you want
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