I often get PDFs with extracts from site blueprints. I need a simple way to mark up locations of required network jacks, power outlets, add text callouts, and sometimes add an arrow or two. I need to be able to quickly and easily plonk in the common symbols for data and power, rotate them to that they are oriented correctly, and have in floor, wall, and ceiling variants, add text adjacent to it to indicate port count and/or elevation, possibly change it's color to emphasize it or color-code by system type or something. I'd often add a text box adding some commentary. Bonus points if you can plonk it a photo or icon. Layers are cool and useful, but not a dealbreaker, same with measurements/scaling.
I don't need revision tracking, project management tools, portfolios, etc. at all.
Bluebeam Revu is neat, but ridiculous overkill for what we need and is expensive.
Adobe Acrobat really sucks at this. The GUI of the newest update is total shit, too, and makes it practically impossible to use, IMHO.
Visio does almost everything regarding stamps and commenting, but the PDF needs to be imported as a PNG, which wrecks scalability and ability to snap to geometry.
PDF Exchange has an easy way to make stamps, but no good way of handling text or metadata associated with a stamp (like you can do with Shapes from a Stencil in Visio). Yes, you can create a textbox as part of a stamp, but it's a PITA to edit that text after adding it and it can't be moved.
Visio's repositionable text - that small yellow dot near the "A" is the handle. The text " 50" AFF" then stays in that position relative to the shape when the shape is moved around. It's fairly easy to add this functionality to custom Shapes as well.
What is out there that works? Needs to work in Windows, no mobile apps please, and no cloud-based application-as-a-service stuff. It's a PITA (rightfully so) to get cloud-based stuff approved via InfoSec.
I don't need revision tracking, project management tools, portfolios, etc. at all.
Bluebeam Revu is neat, but ridiculous overkill for what we need and is expensive.
Adobe Acrobat really sucks at this. The GUI of the newest update is total shit, too, and makes it practically impossible to use, IMHO.
Visio does almost everything regarding stamps and commenting, but the PDF needs to be imported as a PNG, which wrecks scalability and ability to snap to geometry.
PDF Exchange has an easy way to make stamps, but no good way of handling text or metadata associated with a stamp (like you can do with Shapes from a Stencil in Visio). Yes, you can create a textbox as part of a stamp, but it's a PITA to edit that text after adding it and it can't be moved.
Visio's repositionable text - that small yellow dot near the "A" is the handle. The text " 50" AFF" then stays in that position relative to the shape when the shape is moved around. It's fairly easy to add this functionality to custom Shapes as well.
What is out there that works? Needs to work in Windows, no mobile apps please, and no cloud-based application-as-a-service stuff. It's a PITA (rightfully so) to get cloud-based stuff approved via InfoSec.
