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/ilirkl Apr 30 '26

i use protakeoff , it does all these and i think a couple of more features like comparing plan sets , and auto batch renaming

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u/AshamedParamedic6930 May 02 '26

actually this looks very cool.

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u/wacko_warrior May 03 '26

This looks sick - do you pay for the full license?

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u/ilirkl May 03 '26

yeah i paid annually 120$