MarkupCraft Browser edition 0.9

MarkupCraft: drawing review and markup

Open a plan set

  • Choose Open or drop PDFs here: one file or a whole set. They open on this computer; nothing is uploaded.
  • Or choose New for blank pages to sketch on: pick the paper, a grid and how many pages.
  • Pick a tool and draw on the sheet. Clouds, callouts, stamps and measurements all keep an author, a date and a status.
  • Wheel to zoom; drag with the wheel or hold Space to pan. Page Up/Page Down move between sheets.
  • Save downloads a marked-up copy. The markups are real PDF annotations, so any PDF viewer shows them.

MarkupCraft settings

These settings are only for MarkupCraft, and you can change them only here, in the app.

Version

Which build of MarkupCraft this is. Give these lines when you report a problem.

Version
MarkupCraft 0.9 (current)
Running in
Browser edition
Menus, keys and mouse

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Your name

Goes on every markup and reply you make, and into the PDFs you save. Reset leaves your name as it is.

New markups

For new pens, lines, arrows, shapes, clouds, callouts and text. Highlighters, notes, stamps and measurements keep their own colors. A color you pick for one tool in its panel wins over this.

Page contrast

Makes pale text and faint scans easier to read: pale text boxes from other programs, light pencil, washed-out copies. It changes only what you see; the PDF and what you print or save are not touched.

Paste

At the pointer: with the pointer on the sheet, Ctrl+V puts the copy where it points. Beside the copy: pastes a little down and to the right of the original. The Paste button and Ctrl+Shift+V (paste in place) work the same either way.

Measurements

“Show lengths in” is what the sheet scale dialog offers first when you calibrate from two points; sheets you already calibrated keep their unit. The position on the sheet is the paper position shown at the bottom left.

Layout

Workspace layout

Select Workspace Theme

Ticked: the layout you pick above is kept for this app alone, and the other apps keep theirs. Unticked: it follows the choice for every app. In SuperCad Studio the layout follows the app you are working in.

Every app that has the workspace you pick opens in it; the others keep their toolbar and panels. Your toolbar style, menus and keys stay as they are.

Your own layouts

Work environments

Work environments. Save your whole setup under a name (the layout, menu style and keys, toolbar, panels and My tools, for every app) and switch between setups. The theme and the language stay as they are.

If something went missing

Lost a toolbar, a menu or a panel?

Puts the toolbar (order, lock and buttons), the panels, the screen mode and the menu style back to how MarkupCraft starts. Your theme, language, sizes and MarkupCraft's own settings stay as they are.

Icons

Icon style

How the tool icons look in layouts that use the CadCraft icon set, like Duncan.

Colour and preview

The icons are vector drawings: they stay sharp at any size and follow Interface size.

Theme

The theme applies to every CadCraft app and the site.

Language

The language applies to every CadCraft app. The app reloads to change it.

Units

Global settings: each app can have its own measurement settings and defaults too.

Switch a unit on to see it in the unit lists. The star marks the default for new drawings, measures and items. These choices are the same in every app in this browser.

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A file keeps its own unit (a drawing's units, a project's feet or meters), and that unit stays in its list even when it is turned off here.

Hardware specs

Sharing your hardware specs allows us to build more efficient engines. The information is aggregated and not associated with your account: the graphics card, processor cores, memory and screen size, the browser and system family, and the app — no files, no name, no address.

First-time tours

Off: no app starts its tour by itself. Each app's own settings can still turn its tour off, or take it again.

Screen

Browsers allow full screen only after a click or key press, so it starts on your first click in the drawing.

Toolbar

Buttons

Rows and touch

Toolbar rows

Wrap shows every group. 2 rows and 1 row keep the drawing taller; scroll the toolbar sideways for the rest.

Arrange and lock

Arrange: drag tools within their group, and drag a group by its name.

Right-click the toolbar (or long-press it) for Arrange, Lock and Reset.

Input devices

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Drafting without sight

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Sizes and panels

Text and spacing

The bars, toolbars, panels and dialogs of MarkupCraft, bigger or smaller; the drawing keeps its own zoom. Panel text size works on top of it.

Compact tightens the row heights, panel padding, toolbar buttons and panel text of MarkupCraft, so more fits on the screen. A touch screen keeps its large targets either way.

Panels

You can also drag a panel's inner edge. Double-click the edge to put it back.

Panels

Drag a panel by its name to dock it left, right or at the bottom, or drop it over the drawing to float it. A new window can go on your other screen. Reset layout puts every panel back where it started.

Behaviour

In a panel with several sections, opening one (by clicking its heading or by choosing a tool in the menu) closes the others so the panel stays on what you are doing. The lock beside a heading keeps that section open. Turn this off to open and close sections yourself.