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Using Adobe Acrobat to mark up drawings, part 1

Using Adobe Acrobat to mark up drawings, part 1

From the course: Construction Industry: Going Digital in the Field

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Using Adobe Acrobat to mark up drawings, part 1

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- Sometimes, you just have to work with what you have, so let's take a look at working with digital drawings using Adobe Acrobat. This is PDF software that's not necessarily custom made for construction drawings, but it's software that's been around for quite a while. So now I have my default for PDF files set to open in Adobe Acrobat. Let's go ahead and double click on our sample drawing files and let's go ahead and get rid of our welcome screen and you'll see that our sample drawing files have opened up perfectly right here in Adobe Acrobat. And if I go ahead and page down, I can click through all of my pages and view my construction drawings. So that's great, but let's look at a couple of the tools and maybe a couple of the limitations of the software as well. So, one of the reasons I started this series was showing you the software that I showed you is it's really, again, custom made for working with these large format…

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