Great tool!
This is a great BB Alternative for ipad and phone. Has a lot of markup options great for field use
Insane.
I have never, ever written a software review. But this app is so good. I was breathless using it for the first time - SO MUCH BETTER THAN ACROBAT or PREVIEW. It’s extremely precise and fast to work with. I am working on heavy architectural plans and there is zero lag, I can print or export my pdfs with little to no rasterization even on small text. This is a dream. Thank you dev!
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Good, but far from perfect on Mac.
There are a ton of things this software does right, and a bunch of details that it misses the bar on.
For example: 1).The measurement feature, it took me quite some time to finally figure out the order of operations to set the drawing scale. It’s not intuitive at all, and I think it’s overly complicated. The only thing you should have to do is enter the correct measurement after taking the calibration measurement and possibly the units. Doing a unit conversion at the same makes things twice as complicated. 2).Next would be the lack of consistency between the windows and mac versions. I shouldn’t pay for a subscription and have two different sets of features depending on what type of machine i am working on. 3).The biggest one for me is on Mac, the window size memory is non-existent. Every time i open a window it’s the same small size, and there is no way to reset this. Not even using the window memory trick on MacOS, as well as the document zoom. Since it’s always a small window, I make the window the correct size and then have to zoom in the document to be able to read it. It’s CUMBERSOME. 4).Text formatting in a text box could use some work as well. I should be able to have different formatting between different words or letters in a text box. For example, if you use bold the entire paragraph is bold, not just a few select words. 5).Tabbed windows, It has the ability, but should have a way to set this as the default behavior for new windows. This would help with the window size management. 6).Text recognition and selection could use some work but I can’t completely fault Drawboard for that. Some documents especially that have been scanned just are hard to read. I love the app, but the few things add up when you are opening many documents throughout the day. I hate Adobe as it’s slow and buggy, and Drawboard is the app I am drawn to due to it’s feature set.
For example: 1).The measurement feature, it took me quite some time to finally figure out the order of operations to set the drawing scale. It’s not intuitive at all, and I think it’s overly complicated. The only thing you should have to do is enter the correct measurement after taking the calibration measurement and possibly the units. Doing a unit conversion at the same makes things twice as complicated. 2).Next would be the lack of consistency between the windows and mac versions. I shouldn’t pay for a subscription and have two different sets of features depending on what type of machine i am working on. 3).The biggest one for me is on Mac, the window size memory is non-existent. Every time i open a window it’s the same small size, and there is no way to reset this. Not even using the window memory trick on MacOS, as well as the document zoom. Since it’s always a small window, I make the window the correct size and then have to zoom in the document to be able to read it. It’s CUMBERSOME. 4).Text formatting in a text box could use some work as well. I should be able to have different formatting between different words or letters in a text box. For example, if you use bold the entire paragraph is bold, not just a few select words. 5).Tabbed windows, It has the ability, but should have a way to set this as the default behavior for new windows. This would help with the window size management. 6).Text recognition and selection could use some work but I can’t completely fault Drawboard for that. Some documents especially that have been scanned just are hard to read. I love the app, but the few things add up when you are opening many documents throughout the day. I hate Adobe as it’s slow and buggy, and Drawboard is the app I am drawn to due to it’s feature set.
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Affordable alternative to Adobe
Drawboard PDF Annotate offers an affordable alternative to Adobe acrobat. It enables you to markup documents, something that can’t be easily done with Apple Preview.
Sadly the page swiping is awful on iPad
Love the ink to line feature and the clean UI and the ability to hide most of the controls when annotating. However, the page swiping is really really awful and breaks the continuous reading experience especially when the page fit settings / zoom percentage cannot be locked.
