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TIP 93: Drawing and Marking Up Shapes in Acrobat

Some people have a need to doodle on paper. What happens if you take their paper away? Well, just put a mouse in their hand and open a PDF document because you can draw all sorts of objects, including the aforementioned doodle, using the Drawing tools.

Choose Tools > Drawing Markups > Show Drawing Markups Toolbar or right-click/Control-click the toolbar well and choose the toolbar from the list. The Drawing Markups toolbar contains a Drawing subtoolbar. You can see the two menus as well as the pull-down list in Figure 93a.

Drawing markups are forms of comments. To use a tool, click to select it on the toolbar, and then draw points, click and drag, or scribble (in the case of the Pencil and Pencil Eraser tools ). For shapes such as a polygon or clouds, click the starting point to close the shape. When you complete the drawing, you can double-click it to open a note, where you can type information about your doodle (Figure 93b). If you want to show some text on the document in a text box, use the Text Box tool . Click to select the tool in the toolbox and then drag a marquee on the page. A yellow text box the size of the marquee is added to the document; click the box and type your message.

A callout is a specific form of drawing markup that you can use to pinpoint a specific location on a drawing (Figure 93c). Click the document with the Callout tool and a yellow note box appears; type your note, and then click anywhere on the page away from the note box to resize the box and display the arrows. You can drag the box around the page and reposition the arrow's point by dragging as well.

Chapter 14 for information on how to change and customize the appearance of any drawing or drawing markup object.