# Draw on a PDF

Sketch a correction, circle a paragraph, or point an arrow at the thing you mean. Strokes are smoothed as you draw and stay crisp at any zoom.

Live page: [https://freetoolsfr.com/draw-on-pdf](https://freetoolsfr.com/draw-on-pdf)

Drawing on a PDF is the fastest way to say something that would take a paragraph to write: circle the figure that is wrong, arrow the thing that should move, sketch the shape you mean. The pen here records the full path and then simplifies it, which keeps strokes smooth without the wobble a raw mouse path produces, and it reads pressure from a stylus so a drawn line has natural weight. The highlighter is the same tool with a wide, translucent stroke that sits over text rather than covering it. Alongside freehand there are rectangles, ellipses, lines and arrows with independent fill and stroke settings, so you can outline something without hiding it. Strokes stay editable after you draw them — select, move, recolour, reorder or delete — and the eraser removes whole strokes rather than rubbing at pixels. On export everything is written into the page as vector content, so it stays sharp at any zoom and prints cleanly.

## How it works

1. **Open your PDF** — Drop in a file — it's read in your browser, never uploaded
2. **Make your changes** — Edit text, annotate, sign, and rearrange pages
3. **Export** — Download the result, with a password if you want one

## Use cases

- **Sketching a correction**: Draw what you mean instead of describing it
- **Marking up plans**: Circle and arrow areas on floor plans and technical drawings
- **Teaching and feedback**: Annotate worked examples by hand on a tablet
- **Signing and initialling**: Draw initials directly onto a page

## Tips

- **Hold Shift for straight**: Shift constrains shapes to squares and circles, and lines to 45-degree steps.
- **The pen stays active**: It does not revert to Select after a stroke, so you can keep drawing without reselecting the tool.
- **Drawings stay vector**: Strokes are exported as paths, not pixels, so they remain sharp when zoomed or printed.

## FAQ

### Does it support a stylus?

Yes, including pressure sensitivity on devices that report it, so strokes vary in width naturally.

### Can I edit a stroke after drawing it?

You can move, recolour, reorder and delete it. The path itself is fixed once drawn — undo and redraw if the shape is wrong.

### How does the eraser work?

It removes whole strokes rather than erasing pixels, so dragging across a stroke deletes it entirely.

### Will drawings stay sharp when printed?

Yes. They are exported as vector paths, so they are resolution-independent.

### Can I draw on a scanned page?

Yes. Drawing does not depend on the page having any text in it.

## Tool

This page is powered by the [pdf-editor](https://freetoolsfr.com/pdf/editor) tool.

## Related

- [pdf-editor](https://freetoolsfr.com/pdf-editor)
- [edit-pdf](https://freetoolsfr.com/edit-pdf)
- [edit-pdf-online](https://freetoolsfr.com/edit-pdf-online)
- [free-pdf-editor](https://freetoolsfr.com/free-pdf-editor)
- [pdf-editor-no-watermark](https://freetoolsfr.com/pdf-editor-no-watermark)
- [edit-pdf-in-browser](https://freetoolsfr.com/edit-pdf-in-browser)

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