Selecting, Moving, and Resizing Markups

1. 1

   Switch to Select

   Choose Select from the toolbar or press V before editing existing objects.

2. 2

   Click the object

   Click a visible markup on the drawing, or choose it from the Markup List if it is hard to target.

3. 3

   Pick from overlapping markups

   An unfilled or see-through shape does not block what shows through it: clicking inside it picks the line, marker, or smaller shape underneath, and clicking its outline picks the shape itself. Hold Alt (Option on Mac) and click to select the next markup down at that spot; keep clicking to cycle through the stack.

4. 4

   Select several at once

   Press Ctrl/Cmd+A, use Edit > Select All, or pick multiple rows in the Markup List when you need to act on more than one markup.

5. 5

   Clear the selection

   Press Esc, or click an empty part of the drawing.

1. 1

   Drag the markup body

   Drag inside the markup to move it to a new position on the same page.

2. 2

   Drag handles

   Use visible handles to resize shapes, text boxes, count markers, and signatures.

3. 3

   Check locked state

   If the markup will not move, check whether it is locked. The lock toggle lives in the Properties panel and the Layers panel.

1. 1

   Select the parts

   Shift-click or drag a selection box around two or more markups, such as a note and the shapes it describes.

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   Group them

   Press Ctrl/Cmd+G, choose Edit > Group, or right-click the selection and choose Group. Clicking any part now selects the whole group, and dragging any part moves all of it.

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   Ungroup to edit one part

   Select the group and press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+G, choose Edit > Ungroup, or right-click it and choose Ungroup. Undo reverses grouping and ungrouping.

Shapes, lines, text, callouts, measurements, images and other drawn markups can be grouped. Count markers and stamps already belong to their own count or stamp groups, and locked or flattened markups cannot join a group.

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   Select one markup

   Rotation works on a single markup at a time. A multiple selection shows resize handles but no rotation handle.

2. 2

   Drag the rotation handle

   A round-cornered blue handle sits on a short tether above the selection. Drag it to turn the markup around its centre.

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   Check it printed

   Rotation is saved with the markup and drawn by the PDF exporter, so a rotated note or shape prints at the angle you left it.

Locked markups show no handles at all, so unlock first. A few markup types are deliberately not rotatable, legends among them, because they are laid out as upright tables.