Due to remote learning, students have been turning in digital homework. I have been using the annotate tool on PDF-XChange editor with a drawing tablet to mark the papers. However, sometimes I write the wrong thing. When that happens, I want to be able to undo it. Since I have been getting used to this tool, I write fast enough that the undo undoes a large chunk of the comment instead of the last stroke. I could use the eraser tool, but that takes more time than undo. This is a worse problem when I am writing math equations, where undo will undo the entire equation instead of the last thing I wrote.
I believe this is because the block of writing is considered one object/annotation.
Is there a way to make the undo command undo smaller chunks of annotation?
Undo on handwriting undoes way too much
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Re: Undo on handwriting undoes way too much
Hello Zarquan314,
While you can't "disable" the grouping completely - you can significantly reduce the time delay which would result in two separate pencil input strokes to be grouped with a registry change:
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=35838&p=148810&hil ... ay#p148833
After that your undoing operations should work on e.g. single pencil strokes if you set the timing to say 10 ms!
Kind regards,
Stefan
While you can't "disable" the grouping completely - you can significantly reduce the time delay which would result in two separate pencil input strokes to be grouped with a registry change:
viewtopic.php?f=62&t=35838&p=148810&hil ... ay#p148833
After that your undoing operations should work on e.g. single pencil strokes if you set the timing to say 10 ms!
Kind regards,
Stefan
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Re: Undo on handwriting undoes way too much
Thank you! This is very helpful.
I do hope this can be put in a settings menu instead of in the registry.
I do hope this can be put in a settings menu instead of in the registry.
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Re: Undo on handwriting undoes way too much
Hello Zarquan314,
I will bring this up as a suggestion for a future improvement, but for the time being the registry tweak has to be used!
Kind regards,
Stefan
I will bring this up as a suggestion for a future improvement, but for the time being the registry tweak has to be used!
Kind regards,
Stefan