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A new chapter begins

Web browser app

PDFs have never been
collaborative. Now they are.
Mark up PDFs as a team in real-time or in your own time
Millions of engineers, architects, lawyers, students and educators are already using
Drawboard PDF every day for fast and collaborative PDF markup. Our remarkable markup
tools are helping streamline workflows and reduce the world’s reliance on paper. Now you
can work more easily across your own devices and with your teams, sharing and easily
accessing and marking up documents on the cloud from any of our apps.

You’ve come at a great time, as we’ve just finished crafting our best ideas
and feedback from our fantastic users into something really special.

Now that full Drawboard PDF functionality is available in our web app,
you can use it on your Mac and your Android tablet, and even from
your phone on the train on the way home!

Also available on

Microsoft Store iOS (Coming soon)

 A collaborative real-time
..and by the way
workspace for design review
Store whole projects
Need more collaboration Store all drawings and documents, finding what

tools for your design you need quickly with powerful sorting and filtering

& construction team? Instant co-ordination

Try Drawboard Projects
Upload drawing revisions and documents into
projects that fuse pen-based markup with
Manage and mitigate issues with
real-time drawing coordination
Understand changes
Store all drawing revisions and easily

streamlined workflows, and enjoy faster design overlay them to compare and verify changes

review lifecycles that work without paper.

Discuss changes
Keep all discussions right on the drawing
so that everyone can see the context
behind the decisions that were made

Fit to your flow

App integrations connect and improve
your existing design workflow
All your PDFs in
one workspace
The dashboard is your new PDF hub, showing
all your cloud and local files in a grid or list view.
From here you can search, preview, export and
combine PDFs. With one click, you can easily return
to the dashboard at any time to open or create
new files, without needing to close your work.
Powerful tools
at your fingertips
Invest in a favorites bar to save you time. If your essential kit includes thick and
thin red pens, a blue pen, a yellow highlighter and an eraser, spend three minutes
setting it up now and save ten seconds thousands of times as you work.

Drag the Drawboard icon to reposition the favorites bar to best suit your working
style, rearrange your tools until they’re just right, and turn on Tool Lock in Settings
to customize your favorites as sticky or single use. Drawboard PDF can be as
frictionless to use as you want it to be.

So where is the radial menu?

It’s still available in the Windows app, just hidden by default. Open up Settings and either search

for “radial” or look under View & Layout and turn on the Use legacy radial menu switch, and it’ll

pop right up. This is available while we explore potential future floating menu evolutions.
A comfortable +
delightful interface
We’ve redesigned the canvas to be more
powerful, with faster access to the tools
you’ve told us you need.
Navigate between documents using tabs, or use the
new supercharged documents list dropdown button to
see all your open documents in list or grid view, re-order
them and close them all with one click.

Real-time Annotation Syncing

Never use the save button again. With Drawboard Cloud, you

can even switch devices and pick up exactly where you left off.

Share with collaborators directly from the canvas, and you can

work together instantly.

Enhance your
work further
Set up your perfect PDF workspace
by changing the default View settings.
Set up your perfect PDF workspace by changing the
default View settings. Customize the Windows app
quickly by searching the Settings menu, and draw
on top of lined or grid paper using a Grid Overlay.
All the tools,
none of the fuss
Drawboard PDF has all the tools you
need to replace pen and paper.

You’ll find highlighting, handwritten comments,

notes, calibrated measurements and much more.
With best-in-class pressure-sensitive ink, you’ll
even feel the tactility of a pen pressed to paper.
Plans + Accounts
Take your work to the next level
Solo, within your team or across all stakeholders. Add professional tools to your new PDF workflow
Drawboard software fits any size. as well as additional storage capacity.

Accessing your old PRO license

Your current subscription is managed via Microsoft, and your account will
continue to be billed as normal at your current price. No action is required
by you. You will maintain access to all of your current Pro tools, and you will
get automatic access in-app to the new Essentials Plus tier functionality,
which includes a new Store+Share feature allowance. Please ensure that
your Microsoft Store app is signed in with the Microsoft account that you Doc Builder Grids + Lines Text Review
used to purchase Drawboard PDF Pro. Export

How to purchase on Windows?

If you don’t yet have a Drawboard Account, the preview panel on the right
of the dashboard will display the option to purchase a subscription. If you
do have a Drawboard Account, you can open the profile settings panel and
purchase, upgrade and manage subscriptions there.

How to purchase on Web? Measurement Hyperlinks Color picker

In the web app, go to your profile settings (click on your initials in the top
right) and you can purchase, upgrade and manage subscriptions.
FAQs
I don’t have a touch screen or Pen
That’s okay! We built the app in anticipation of
this, so you’ll be able to fully make use of it even
if you don’t have one.
Who can I contact for help?
You’ll find answers for many of your questions at
Why is the toolbar different, support.drawboard.com. If you’d still like to get in
and where’s the radial menu?
touch, you’ll find a link at the top of every page
The toolbar is a new and improved design direction for us,
but since a lot of our beta community missed the Radial
that will put you in touch with our support team.
Menu, we’ve introduced the ability to enable it in settings.
You can find it in the ‘View & Layout’ tab in Settings, labeled
The Drawboard Team
‘Use legacy radial menu’. This will not be updated to match the
new designs as it will be a temporary fixture, while we work out
what the evolution of such a floating tool menu will be.