Google Drive rolling out PDF annotation with stylus or finger on Android

Google’s push to optimize its first-party apps on tablets continues with Drive for Android including the power to annotate PDFs utilizing a stylus or finger. 

You will be capable to “use your finger or a stylus to freely write annotations on a file shown in the Drive preview screen on Android devices.”

1. On your Android Device, open the Google Drive app.
2. To enter preview mode, open the PDF you’d prefer to annotate.
3. At the underside proper nook, faucet the annotate button.
4. A toolbar opens with a number of annotating instruments. You can use a stylus or your finger to pick an annotating device.

Available instruments embody a pen and highlighter with completely different brush sizes, in addition to colours. There may also be an eraser (for particular person traces) and undo/redo. You may also be capable to present/conceal annotations with out erasing any of your annotations. The toolbar could be snapped to any facet of the display screen by tapping and holding.

Once achieved, it can save you the annotations to the unique PDF, or make a brand new copy with every thing. In the latter case, the “original copy remains unmarked.”

Google Drive’s PDF Annotate functionality isn’t but rolled out on a number of Android units we checked in the present day. This will profit the pill expertise, particularly with styluses, however may also be useful in a pinch on telephones (for signing paperwork). Wide availability is predicted over the approaching weeks.

More on Google Drive:

• Google’s Simple ML for Sheets add-on can predict lacking and spot irregular values
• Docs and Slides including eyedropper device to paint picker
• Google Workspace Individual now in 12 extra international locations and getting 1TB of storage
• Google Tasks for Android will get an overdue Material You makeover

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