With the newest version of Google Drive for Android, you'll be able to draw freely on PDF files with a stylus or your finger.
Once you install the latest update for the app, opening a PDF will bring up a new FAB pen in the bottom right corner of the screen. Tapping it will bring up a new pill-shaped toolbar just above the bottom navigation bar.
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This toolbar contains six buttons or tools. There is a pen tool that you can use to draw on the PDF. It comes in four colors (red, black, blue, and green) and stroke widths of 8 to 40 pixels. Next, we have a highlighter in yellow, green, blue, or purple. This tool also offers the same stroke width range and can be used to highlight text. An eraser tool lets you erase an entire stroke, while you also get undo/redo buttons in case you mark something up incorrectly. Finally, you get a tool to hide all the marks you have made on the PDF.
A “Save” button in the top-right corner of the screen lets you save any changes you make to a PDF file directly to it without creating a copy . But Drive also lets you save changes as a copy from the overflow menu. This will leave the original file unmarked. By default, the toolbar containing these annotation tools opens at the bottom of your phone ’s screen . But you can move it to the top. If you open Drive in landscape mode on a tablet , it will be vertically on the right by default , but it can be moved to the left.
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Google announced the ability to draw and mark up PDFs in its Drive Android app last month. The company didn't say when the new feature would be available to users. But 9to5Google recently spotted that version 2.23.081.2 of the app brings the new annotation tools. The update isn't yet widely available, but it should be soon. If you use Drive regularly, you might find these tools quite handy.
Information source: androidheadlines.com
