Edit Existing Text

Click words that are already on the drawing and type the new ones. They’re laid over the old on a patch the colour of the sheet under the words (white on a white page), in the same size of type.

Why you would use it

A room name that has changed, a figure that’s wrong, a note that no longer applies: correct it on the sheet without redrawing anything.

For example

What to do

1. Pick Edit Existing Text.
2. Click the words to change; they’re outlined as you point.
3. Type the new words and press Ctrl and Enter, or click away.

Going further

It’s an ordinary note, so it moves, restyles, undoes and exports like one, and its description says what it replaces. The drawing’s own content isn’t rewritten: the old words are still in the PDF underneath, so search and copy still find them, and this isn’t redaction. A scan is a picture of words and has none to click; use the Text tool there. Words set at an angle are left alone.

If you already use another program

In a CAD program: Editing a piece of text in place. Here the drawing’s own text isn’t rewritten: the new words are laid over the old ones.

In a PDF markup program: An edit-text tool in a full PDF editor rewrites the page. This doesn’t, which is why it is a mark you can move or undo, and why the old words are still in the file.