Format Painter

The Format Painter can be used to easily copy appearance formatting and properties from one markup to another markup or group of markups. The Format Painter will remember the last source used and use its formatting and properties as default until another source is chosen.

The Format Painter will analyze a markup’s color, line width, opacity, line style, hatch pattern, line/polyline/callout start and end points, and font properties (type, style, size, alignment, margin, underline, strikethrough), and it will determine which formatting properties it can apply to the selected markups.

Note: The Format Painter does not consider the type of markups involved and it will apply the formatting and properties from dissimilar markups if you choose to do so.

The Format Painter only changes the appearance properties of a markup. The tool will not alter the subject or label properties of the target markup.

ClosedUsing the Format Painter
  1. Click the markup with the characteristics you wish to replicate.
  2. Go to Edit > Format Painter or press CTRL+SHIFT+C.
  3. Click an individual markup or click and drag to select multiple markups.

Note: The Format Painter is optimized to work differently with grouped markups, so some properties will transfer differently depending on whether it is used on grouped markups or individual markups.

ClosedUsing Format Painter with the Tool Chest

If a particular format is used frequently, it can be added to the Tool Chest for easy access. Either of the methods described below can be used with any markup in the Tool Chest.

Method A:

  1. Right-click the markup tool in the Tool Chest with the desired attribute and select Paint Format.
  2. Click the target markup(s) in the PDF.

Method B:

  1. Double-click the markup tool in the Tool Chest that has the desired attributes to put it in Properties Mode (if the markup tool is already in Properties Mode, just select it).
  2. Go to Edit > Format Painter or press CTRL+SHIFT+C.
  3. Click the target markup(s) in the PDF.

ClosedUsing Format Painter in the Markups List

If you would like to change the properties for multiple markups, another convenient method is to select markups in the Markups list and then apply the formatting.

  1. Click the source markup.
  2. Go to Edit > Format Painter or press CTRL+SHIFT+C.
  3. Open the Markups list and select the markups in the list you wish to format.
  4. Right-click on any of the selected markups and select Paint.

Related topics

Using the Tool Chest

Using the Markup List