Drawboard PDF focuses mainly on handling PDF files, and thus having the best technology in opening & creating PDFs. You will be able to open and create PDFs in a seamless way. We will teach you different kinds of methods on opening and creating a PDF.
As you know, we have 2 major segregation within our app: Dashboard & Canvas. Since, opening and creating a PDF are an essential function of our app, we have made these features available across both the Dashboard and Canvas
Opening a PDF
Opening a PDF - From the Dashboard
- Click 'Open file from device' button
- Select a document from the file explorer
- Click open
- A new tab will be opened and your document will be able to be worked on
Open file from device button on the dashboard
Opening a PDF - From the Open/Create modal
- Click the '+' button in the Dashboard / Canvas(Located near your documents tab on the top)
- Click the 'Open Local File' button
- Select a document from the file explorer
- Click open
- A new tab will be opened and your document will be able to be worked on
Opening a PDF - Drag & Drop
- Open a file explorer
- Drag your selected PDF to the Dashboard or Canvas of our Windows app
Creating a PDF
You can create a PDF in 4 different ways from our Open/Create modal: A blank PDF, From an Image, From Camera, or Combine multiple PDFs.
Open/Create modal
Creating a Blank PDF
- Click the '+' button in the Dashboard / Canvas(Located near your documents tab on the top)
- Click Blank Document
- Choose the Document Title, Page Size, Number of Pages, Page Orientation, Page Background style
- Choose the Grid + lines(Pro Features)
- Click create document
- Your blank document will open on the canvas
Create a Blank PDF modal
Creating a PDF from an Image
- Click the '+' button in the Dashboard / Canvas(Located near your documents tab on the top)
- Click From Image
- Select the image from the file explorer
- Click open
- The image will open on the canvas as a PDF
Creating a PDF from Camera
- Click the '+' button in the Dashboard / Canvas(Located near your documents tab on the top)
- Click From Camera
- This will launch the camera modal
- Take the photo
- Crop the photo in the camera modal
- Click done
- The PDF will be created
Creating a PDF from Document Builder
This is only available for a paid subscribed user
- Click the '+' button in the Dashboard / Canvas(Located near your documents tab on the top)
- Click Combine
- This will take you to the Document Builder
- Use the Document Builder to create a new document
Document Builder page