Drawboard PDF is the best PDF app in Windows Store to read, annotate and mark up your PDFs. it is ideal for replacing pen and paper; avoid printing documents ever again, making annotating your documents a breeze. Open existing PDFs or create a new PDF, annotate using our extensive array of tools, then save your document back as a compatible PDF. This app got updated to v4.0 in Windows Store with revamped UI and more.
Highlights:
- Completely revamped user interface with new brand color
- Removed app bars – all menu items and app options are now in a brand new left-hand-side menu system, in preparation for Windows 10 design guidelines
- Drawboard Online Premium tier no longer exists – Pressure Sensitive Inking and Audio Inserts now standard
- No more 5-tab limitation
- New rectangle cloudy tool
- Laser Inking – it’s like a laser pointer for your pen!
Complete Change Log:
New Features
- CTRL-O opens the document explorer
- Added new rectangle cloud tool
- Laser Inking option added to settings
- Added large tile support
- Added ability to flatten a single page
- Added warning for too many open files / Removed 5 file limitation
- Added ability to turn off annotation selection
- Help is opened when F1 is pressed
- Premium Features’ has been deprecated. Pressure Sensitive Inking and Audio Inserts are now included as standard
- Added ability to close all documents
- Added new page counter
- Added recent files and quick-access save buttons to main menu
- Added ability to undo a page rotate
- New UI design for workspace page including hamburger style menu, which can be hidden for unobstructed viewing (tap the menu icon)
- Visual feedback when document has unsaved changes
- User can now select number of actions kept in memory for undo (App Options > Annotations)
- Complete user interface revamp
- All menu items now in left-hand-side (LHS) menu. Removed App bars
- Entire new color scheme
- ‘x’ button on each tab turns green when changes are yet to be saved. Before closing, prompt is given to save changes
- Document File Info shows quick-view file information
- Walkthrough tour
- New welcome screen
- Processing message added to inform user when application is busy
- Allow user to refresh page using F5
- Added CTRL-G as a shortcut to Goto page
Improvements
- Removed max zoom option
- Line select with right pen button changed to rectangle select
- Removed app bars
- Improved ink smoothing
- Changed default side of favourites to right
- Added relative zooming – zoom level is now relative to size of the page being viewed
- Custom page number now brings up on-screen number pad instead of keyboard
- Set progressive rendering to off by default
- Added document count at top of tabs panel
- Added ability to load complex pdfs on startup
- Sending user to UserVoice when navigating to help
- Added auto-save per annotations
- Bounding box handles are now squares
- Added stability for autosaves
- App resume now returns zoom level to previous state
- Font size in text box reflects font size in text box editor
- Updated keyboard shortcuts
- Improved thumbnails
- Bonus: Radial Menu now bounces better around your screen!
- Autosave disabled by default
- Single-page page manipulation and annotation tools for single pages now in ‘…’ icon next to individual pages in pages panel
- Document View and Layout options include toggle switches for Night and Continuous Modes
- Document Annotations options include toggle switch for Show Annotations
- Support and Feedback and Tutorials buttons merged to App Options as ‘Help’. All support is now in the Drawboard User Hub, and this section links to this webpage
- Improved exception tracking
- Group selection marquee around ink strokes improved
- Improved erasing
- Removed clear unsaved option for clearing annotations
- Optimized startup speed
- Reduced app payload size (by approx. 50%)
- Removed social logins from the app
Bug Fixes
- Corrections to address crashes when rotating all pages on large documents
- Corrected issue where space bar changes page when in bookmark and search
- Corrected issue where bookmarks with same name navigated to same destination in document
- Fixed issue with line and arrow vanishing when in select mode and another tool was engaged
- Added markup history symbols for images and notes
- Improved inking – faster, smoother
- Fixed black screen issue with some PDFs. Corrupt file message appears instead
- Improved performance of scratch (temporary files) and thumbnails
- Corrected issue where trial countdown was showing up after activation key was entered OR user is logged in with provisioned credentials
- Corrected issue where removing text review annotations would crash the app
- Corrected issue where signature fields in forms would not allow signature insert
- Corrected issue where text entry popup in forms was positioned offset
- Disabled Clear All option when no recent files exist
- Added Save As… option when original file location is unavailable
- Added incremental change saving for every ink stroke
- Corrected issue where resizing text-insert bounding box opened edit popup
- Corrected issue where inserted text would change location when page was rotated
- Corrected issue where bookmarks where showing for deleted pages
- Corrected issue where predictive search prevented user from searching with same prefixed characters
- Markup history now dynamically updates whilst panel is open
- Corrected issue where text was not selectable until app restart
- Corrected issue where cut/paste and copy/paste would leave artifacts in source location on a page
- Improved caching of pages for faster rendering (actual page and page thumbnail panel)
- Corrected issue when using Annotate Using Touch, dragging using touch would resize annotations instead of move annotation
- Corrected issue where inserted signature would not rotate when page was rotated
- Corrected issue where undoing a delete on any shape would reset opacity of said shape to 100%
- Removed semantic zoom (redundant with new pages panel)
- Corrected arrow and line insert problems with touch
- orrected issue where touch annotation would pan instead of ink on first-use of a tool
- Corrected isssue where toggling between tabs would crash application
- Application now properly handling password protected documents
- Corrected issue where deleting an annotation would freeze application
- Multi-select now shows each individual annotation’s bounding box
- Corrected issue where multi-select would not retain annoation relational spacing
- User can now interact with document while search panel is open
- Corrected range of issues with undo/redo
- Corrected issue where app wouldsometimes crash when opening files and rendering document
- Corrected issue where signatures in signatures manager were lost after adding and then restarting application
- Image insert now intelligently resizes an image upon insert, instead of the user having to define an image crop area
- Corrected issue where file size increased even when annotations were removed
- Corrected all issues where internet was required for app features to be unlocked
- Corrected issue where text box would not insert at specified location on document
- Corrected issue where favorites toolbar was not keeping favorites between app sessions
- Corrected freeze during highlight
- Corrected issue where app would add abritary password to PDF document
- Corrected issue where undoing text review annotation would remove all layered elements (e.g. strikeout and highlight would both be removed). Now only removes last-applied
- Corrected issue where keyboard was popping up for no reason when opening a document
- Corrected issue where zoom controls were randomly vanishing
- Corrected issues where dragging selection gripper on text would deselect initial selection
- Highlighter can now have opacity set
- Corrected crash that occurred when navigating to URL links
- Corrected issue causing rubber stamps to not be deleteable / movable / undoable
- Corrected issue where text would not remain selected when zooming and snapping
- Corrected iss where search result would not remain selected when zooming and snapping
- Corrected smart zooming to include mouse
- Corrected issue where text would not resize correctly as text box resizes
- Corrected ink configuration where touch smoothing was being applied on stylus input
- Corrected issue where two finger scroll would draw ink just before second finger was placed on the canvas
- Corrected selection issue where selection marquee was left on the canvas after when an item was selected
- Corrected issue with trial period sessions
Download it here from Windows Store.