First things first. We need to understand what is annotating. This is just another term for marking a word, a sentence, a paragraph, a phrase or a page. So, suppose you are reading something on a PDF on your Mac, iPhone or your iPad and you have to mark something on it so that you can figure out the important points and you look back whenever you want. Kind of digital marking. This is just like you are reading a book and you underline or a highlight all important points or you leave a book mark so that you know what have you read so far. Students read newspapers and they mark or underline if they find something important for them in that article. Annotating is another way to help develop a deeper understanding of any text in any article, any design & art work, print notes, magazine reviews etc. This helps in filtering important details, better visualize the information you need. The best part is there are different colors that you can choose to highlight your stuff.
How to annotate PDF: What annotation functions are there?
Highlight
You can highlight any word or sentence or a paragraph by dragging you finger across to select it. Highlight is used when you want you need to add multiple annotations. Activate the annotation mode by tapping the ‘Annotate’ icon in the top toolbar; select the Highlight. You can change the color and the opacity. It usually keeps a yellow background as the default setting.
Underscore
Just select the tool or the underline mode & underline. Underline or Underscore.
Strikethrough
Strikethrough mode can be selected and the words or paragraphs can be annotated in the same manner just like highlight & underline.
Shape
Following are the shape annotation tools on PDF :-
Circle: Creates a circle annotation.
Square: Creates a square annotation.
Polyline: Creates a polyline annotation.
Polygon: Creates a polygon annotation.
Cloud: Creates a cloud annotation.
Line: Creates a line annotation.
Arrow: Creates an arrow annotation.
Pencil: Creates a pencil annotation.
All these shape annotations are just right click away. You can draw the shape you want by going to comment section, click on connected lines option, right click and select the shape. Make changes in the color, size and other things as per your need.
Signature
Simple handwritten signatures. Signature annotations sync in PDF expert across your iOS and macOS devices. You can open the PDF, select annotate, tap on the signature icon on the annotations tool bar, add your hand written signatures and you can save it. Use preview also.
Sticky note
A sticky note annotation comes like a text. To add text or comments. They appear as an icon when the PDF is closed and when you open them, they show a window containing the text note in it. The best thing is that you can choose the font size, and the style and many more things. And it’s very easy to add a sticky note to any document. You just need to open the document. Go to the “Comment” section, and click on the “Note” button. Choose the position and location for the PDF sticky notes. A yellow sticky notes icon will appear and open a pop-up window for you to write what you want the sticky note to contain. Once you finish writing, click on “X” to close the sticky note. You can right-click on the sticky note to change the properties. If you click on “Use as default”, every other sticky note you add will have the same properties. You can change the author by going to properties. And as other annotations have the features to change the subject of the sticky note, color, opacity, and more, you can do the same here also. If you want to select all sticky notes, right-click on any note, and click on “Select All” option. In order to copy the same sticky note in multiple places in the document, you can right-click on the note, click on copy, and then paste in a different part of the document. To delete a sticky note just right-click and then select delete.
Text box
Text box is more less the same just like sticky note annotation. Suppose you want to add or insert any text in the document, you can simply go to comment section and then click on text box then select the area where you want to add the text, right click and select properties and make changes according to your requirements. Again, you can change the default color of the box as well as the text.
Stamp
This looks more like an inked stamp on a paper document. This can also be used to place a name, signature with approval date. And this needs to be installed. It’s also possible to create a custom stamp annotation with personalized text and settings in the custom stamp editor. You can choose date & time. Stamp annotations can be modified also. You need to choose stamp icon on markup icon and you can choose whichever stamp you like from the options popping up in the window. Custom stamp is also very easy to create. Click on the stamp icon, and then click on CUSTOM option, click on CREATE button in order to create a custom stamp or to import it to upload. There are options to insert date and time and choose the text along with the color of the font. Always preview in the preview window.
Best PDF Annotator of 2021. How to use PDFelement for Mac8.5 to annotate PDF?
PDFelement for Mac8.5 provide the annotation and markup features include highlighting, underline, strikethrough, text boxes, call outs, stamps, and freehand drawing with pencil. It also does many other things, like fill and sign forms with a one-click form creator and move documents forward, convert PDFs to other file formats, create and combine PDF files, copy text function and much more. All you need to do to use the app for free is to register for a Wondershare account. All PDF documents can be password protected or permissions to restrict printing, copying, or altering.
PDFelement can be used for adding comments, add stamp to PDF, create custom stamp, draw shapes, mark PDF text and add hand written signatures by using mouse or trackpad to save hours on every proposal and contract you send. Ensure high image quality while making them easily accessible across most devices.
You can add more graphics to your documents and make them look beautiful. Convert PDF files into Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and RTF documents. PDFs are truly a blessing, and with the annotation tools mentioned above, you can make them even better. It is simple to use and does not come with a steep learning curve. You can Store and access your files from the cloud.
PDFelement offers three different solutions as per your business needs – PDFelement Standard, PDFelement Pro, and PDFelement Business.
Also, PDFelement provide iOS version for mobile users to edit PDF easily on iPhone or iPad.
Conclusion :-
This all about annotations on PDF on Mac. The best of information has been shared here as to how these options can be used and how simple it is to use them. Hoping that this article helps you in the best way. All these tools are very easy to use.
