Draw, ink and brush annotations

Freehand drawing with the Pen, Marker and Brush tools.

Applies to A recent Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox

Kiwi PDF includes three freehand drawing tools — the Pen, the Marker and the Brush. Each produces a different line style.

Choose a drawing tool

Select Pen, Marker or Brush from the tool row.

The Brush tool and a hand-drawn underline on the total

Try the Pen in the editor

Pen

The Pen draws a smooth line of constant width. Use it for neat writing, arrows and precise marks.

Adjust thickness and colour in the properties bar or panel.
Adjust opacity to make strokes semi-transparent.

Marker

The Marker draws thick, semi-transparent strokes — ideal for marking passages of text on a scanned document where the Highlight markup tool cannot detect text.

Default opacity is 50 % so you can read the text underneath.
Increase thickness for wider coverage.

Brush

The Brush produces strokes that vary in width depending on drawing speed — thick when drawn slowly, thin when drawn quickly — simulating the feel of a real brush or fountain pen.

The variation in width is stored with the annotation and is visible in other PDF apps.

Erase a stroke

Switch to the Eraser tool and tap or drag over any drawn annotation to delete it. The eraser removes whole annotation objects, not individual pixels.

Select and edit a drawn annotation

Switch to the Select tool and tap the stroke. Drag it to move it, drag a corner handle to resize, or drag the round button above the frame to rotate. See Select, move and resize annotations.

To select several strokes at once, use Multi-select and drag a rectangle over them.