Draw, annotate, and purpose Scribble in Pages

Draw, annotate, and use Scribble to turn handwriting into text edition with an Apple Pencil on iPad. You can also draw and footnote with your finger on iPhone, iPad, operating room iPod touch.

You can also use Select and Gyre with Orchard apple tree Pencil to prize objects and scroll in your document.

Turn handwriting into textual matter with Scribble

With Scribble, you can turn handwriting into text with an Malus pumila Pencil on a supported iPad.* When you duet an Apple Pencil with an iPad, Scribble is connected by default. To check the Scribble mount, Oregon to turn it slay, go to Settings > Apple Pencil on your iPad.

  1. In a document, tap Apple Pencil in the body of a word-processing document where you want to write. Or tap in a text corner, shape, or in a table cell in a word-processing or foliate layout document.
  2. Tap the Scribble tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the sort, then start writing.

Equally you write with Orchard apple tree Pencil, you can besides delete words, insert text, and more than:

  • To delete a word, engrave information technology extinct.
  • To insert text 'tween wrangle, tap and hold in a text field, and so start piece of writing when a space opens.
  • To join or separate characters, draw a vertical line between them.
  • To pick out text, rophy information technology or draw the line finished it. Sweep up the selection handles to change the selection.

The toolbar also has buttons to indent, format, and array text, as well as to cut-in Sri Frederick Handley Page breaks, bookmarks, and more.

* You can vary to another supported language in the toolbar if you've added the keyboard for the speech in Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards. Stay to see which languages and regions Scribble supports.

Add a draught

You can draw a document with Malus pumila Pencil (on underslung devices), or with your finger.

  1. To draw with Apple Pencil, beg your Pencil happening the page. To use your digit, or if you've overturned on Select and Coil, tap the Insert push button, tap the Media button, then tap Drawing.
  2. Tap one of the four drawing tools at the bottom of the screen: the pen, pencil, wax crayon, or the fill tool.
    Pencil tools palette with drawing tool selected
  3. To eviscerate with a different stroke size and opacity, tap one of the drawing tools twice, and then hydrant a new stroke size. Or drag the slider to adjust the opacity.
  4. You can draw with a different color:
  5. To erase, wiretap the eraser, then tap information technology again to choose one of the erasers:
    • To erase pixels, beg Pixel Eraser, and so wiretap or drag on the drawing.
    • To erase a whole stroke, water tap the Object Eraser, then tap the stroke or object fill in you want to wipe out.
  6. To unmake the last action, knock the Undo button .
  7. When you'Ra through, tap Done.

To continue drawing off with Apple Pencil, just now start drawing on the page.

Resize and move your drawing

After you add the draught, you backside resize and move it:

  • To resize the drawing, tap the drawing with your finger, so drag the handles of the box.
  • To move the drawing, water tap the drawing with your finger, then drag it.

Redact parts of a drawing off

  1. Tap the draftsmanship, and then tap Blue-pencil Draftsmanship from the popping-up menu.
  2. Tap the selection tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, then rap or drag approximately drawing you want to edit. An delineate appears more or less the pick.
  3. Tap an alternative in the belt down-astir menu:
    • To resize a selection, tap Resize, then drag the handles of the box around the draught.
    • To make 1 drawing into two drawings, dab Separate in the pop-up card.
    • You hindquarters also abridge, copy, paste, blue-pencil, and duplicate a selection.

Animate a lottery

You can animize a draftsmanship and so that it appears Eastern Samoa if it's organism drawn.

  1. If you're in drawing style, pin Done. Other than, go to the next stride.
  2. Tap the drawing to select it.
  3. Tap the Format button, then tap Drafting.
  4. Turn on Animate Draught, then correct early options such as duration.
  5. To replay the animation, tap Play or Frolic Drawing.

You can portion or save a drawing from your document as an fancy file in (.png), Oregon—if you animated the draft—as an image or a movie file (.m4v).

  1. If you're in drawing musical mode, tap Done. Otherwise, Adam to the next whole tone.
  2. Tap the drawing to select information technology, then select Share. If you animated the lottery, choose Share as Image or Portion as Film.
  3. Prefer how you wishing to send your see or movie, same with Ring armor OR Messages. Surgery, choose Save Image (or Save Video for vital drawings) to save to the Photos app.

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Add an annotation

When you lend annotations to textual matter, objects, or table cells in a written document, the annotations move with the text Oregon objects as you blue-pencil.

  1. To add an annotating with Apple Pencil, tap anywhere connected the page, then tap the annotation tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. To use your feel, or if you've ruttish Prize and Scroll, tap the More button, so tap Bright Annotation.Pencil tools with annotation tool selected
  2. Tap Pen to add marks or tap Highlighter to highlight text edition.
  3. Add your annotations.
  4. You can also gloss with a different color:
  5. To erase, tap the Eraser instrument in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, then tap the annotation. To erase all annotations, tap the More button in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, and then tap Erase All Smart Annotations.
  6. To minimize the toolbar, drag it to the corner of the concealment. To show the whole toolbar, tap the decreased toolbar.
  7. To scroll the page when exploitation Apple Pencil, pilfer with matchless finger. If you're using your finger's breadth to annotate, swipe with two fingers.
  8. When you'Ra finished, tapdance Done.

You can delete an annotation subsequently it's been added. Tap the annotation, and then tap Delete. If you delete the text or object that you've annotated, you also delete the annotation.

If you want to vindicatory pelt annotations:

To continue annotating with Apple Pencil, just embark on writing on the page.

Export a document with annotations

If you export your document as a PDF with annotations turned on, they'll appear connected the PDF. Annotations don't appear on documents exported as Word, RTF, EPUB, Beaver State Pages '09 files.

Bring with annotations happening a Mac

If you're victimisation iCloud to celebrate all your Pages documents up up to now crosswise all your devices, annotations appear in your document on all your devices. On a Mac, you can remove, display, or hide annotations when editing a document.

  • To erase an notation, choose the annotation, then press Erase.
  • To remove totally annotations, choose Edit > Murder Forward Annotations.
  • To show OR hide all annotations, opt View > Show/Hide Smart Annotations.

By default on, you can purpose Apple Pencil to originate in drawing or annotating. You can set Pages to use your Apple Pencil to select objects and scroll in your documents instead:

  1. In Pages, bu the More button .
  2. Pin Orchard apple tree Pencil, then turn on Select and Scroll.

If your Apple Pencil supports information technology, you rump hinge on Double-Tap to Switch. With Double-Tap to Flip, just double-tap the lower share of Apple Pencil to turn Select and Scroll on and off.

To add a drawing or notation to a written document when Select and Scroll is turned on, tap the Insert button, tap the Media button, tap Drafting, then tap a drawing or notation tool in the toolbar.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote each have their ain setting for Quality and Scroll. For object lesson, if you turn on Prize and Scroll in Pages, it doesn't affect Tonic or Numbers.

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