Radial Menu – Drawboard Help Centre

I know you missed it! So we are bringing back our beloved radial menu to the app! Not only that but we are giving it a new and refreshing look of the radial menu. This article gives an introduction of our new Radial Menu.

A new look!

That's right! What you see on the left is our old radial menu and we have redesigned it with a refreshing and modern look (right).

Old Radial menu v1.0 (Left) & New Radial Menu v2.0 (Right)

Components in the Radial Menu

Let us go through all the 8 components that are available in the radial menu.

1. Pan tool (Hand tool)

This acts as the same pan tool as you would know from our toolbar. It allows you to pan through the pages.

2. 'Select' Category

There are different ways in which you can select your annotation. We offer you 3 ways:

Rectangle Select
Text Select
Lasso Select
Laser Pointer

You can find all of these options by clicking the arrow next to the icon.

3 & 4. Pen tool

This is the pen tool that we all know and love. You can edit the properties of this tool by clicking the arrow next to the pen and it should take you to the edit properties menu.

Note: We have never removed any available colours from the old radial menu to this new radial menu.

5. Highlighter

This is the highlighter tool that lets you highlights your PDF. You can edit the properties of this tool by clicking the arrow next to the pen and it should take you to the edit properties menu.

6. Eraser tool

This is the eraser tool that lets you erase annotation from your PDF. You can adjust the size by clicking the arrow next to the icon.

7. Text review Category

Text review tools are tools that allows you to edit the text that are embedded on your PDF (this is different from annotation). We offer you different ways to do this: