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Drawing and writing on your paper

Use the pen tool to write and draw on your paper

Written by Shahid Lakha
Updated over 10 months ago

The Pen tool

Bitpaper has great handwriting capabilities which works well when paired with a graphics tablet or smart device. The pen tool, activated by clicking on the pen or by pressing 1 enables drawing freehand:

This can be used to write words, equations or draw shapes.

And holding shift activates the ruler, allowing you to draw straight lines at any angle:

Pressing 2 opens the tool settings in the side bar:

From this menu you can change:

  1. The width and colour of the pen

  2. The width of the eraser

  3. The colour, width and opacity of the highlighter.

The eraser is accessed by pressing 3 or clicking the eraser icon:

The highlighter is accessed by pressing 8 or clicking on the highlighter icon:

Quick Colour palette

With the pen tool selected, 1, right clicking will bring up the quick colour palette:

There are 9 predefined colours, with the option to customise them to your personal preference, and a slider to set the pen width.

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