[SOLVED] Best way to redline markup a pdf drawing?

[zillah]

Dear folk
Attached is part of a pdf drawing for my work sometime when I do a survey I need to redline markup the floor plan page only,,,,means I suggest a location for a new cabinet or a new hardware and put a distance and write the description.

Basically I need to add shapes and choose colors , write text , include distance

https://imgur.com/a/XpYJatf

View: https://imgur.com/a/XpYJatf


What I have been doing take a screenshot to this page and pasted into a Microsoft paint and then add what i want to add

Can i redline markup the page using pdf editor rather than Microsoft paint ?

I am using Foxit Phantom

Thx

 

[tennis2]

I'm also curious about this. I use the "comment" section of the adobe reader tools tab, but it's clunky at best.

 

[USAFRet]

Possibly the freeware Inkscape.

Inkscape - Draw Freely. | Inkscape

Inkscape is professional vector graphics software which runs on Linux, macOS and Windows desktop computers.

inkscape.org

Interestingly, this vector graphics tool can also load and manipulate pdf's.
Costs nothing to try.

 

[zillah]

I use the "comment" section of the adobe reader tools

Does the comment section add shaped ? or only text ?

 

[tennis2]

What shapes are you looking to draw?

 

[zillah]

What shapes are you looking to draw?

Circle or Square

 

[tennis2]

Well it's a rectangle or ellipsoid, but if you've got a good eye you can make them circles or squares.

Also polygons.

It's certainly not sophisticated, but it works (I'm a structural engineer). I would like to find something better though.

 

[hang-the-9]

Those drawings are generated then printed, why not ask your work to use the original program that was used to generate the maps and use that to make the edits?

 

[tennis2]

Not everyone at a company that deals with drawings may have access to (or knows how to use) CAD.
Depending on what CAD program you're using, it may not be "safe" to just allow any average Joe into an editable CAD drawing to play around. Of course, some CAD programs are better tuned for markups within the program than others, so that may range from giving the reviewer their own separate copy of the drawing file (NOT THE MASTER) or having user privileges/functionality pre-defined in the software.

Even though I draw my own drawings in CAD [my company is small enough not to have a dedicated drafter(s)], I rarely markup someone else's drawing inside CAD (either by obtaining the CAD file or importing the PDF into vectorized CAD form). For internal review, we still do a lot of colored pencil/pen markups.

 

[zillah]

Those drawings are generated then printed, why not ask your work to use the original program that was used to generate the maps and use that to make the edit

I will second tennis2
In my case those drawing generated by an outsource company not even mine and almost impossible to ask that