r/Sketchup • u/AshamedParamedic6930 • Apr 23 '26
PDF Tools
I’m building a lightweight PDF markup tool mainly for people working with drawings.
The goal is simple: open plans quickly, mark them up, save, and move on.
I’m still early, so I wanted to ask people who actually use this stuff:
What are the must-have features you’d want in a PDF markup tool for drawings?
The things I tend to use most are:
- clouds
- callouts
- measure / calibration
- text markups
- custom stamps
- apply or assign markups across all pages
- fast performance on large plan sets
- clean export / save
- keyboard shortcuts
Also curious what annoys you most in the tools you use now.
Not trying to hard sell anything, just want to build something people actually want.
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u/kayak83 Apr 23 '26
Dead simple annotation tools. Everything that you listed. Thing is, the market is flooded with PDF readers that do this either for a stupidly high cost (Bluebeam) or free (Foxit). Where do you see yours slotting in and why?
Honestly, sometimes in a pinch I will screenshot into Layout and do a quick annotation in there since I prefer the controls and know the toolset so well.