Draw, ink and brush annotations

Freehand drawing with the Pen, Marker and Brush tools.

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

Choose a drawing tool

1. Select the Annotate group from the tool group bar.
2. Click Pen, Marker or Brush in the tool row, then draw on the page.
3. Adjust colour, thickness and opacity in the Properties panel on the right.

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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.