Drafters who swear by digital-only are missing the point of a good redline markup session

My boss made us switch to all-digital markups 18 months ago and after spending 4 hours last week fighting a glitchy PDF annotation tool on a 50-page structural plan, I went back to printing it out and using a red pen like I always should have - has anyone else had their workflow actually get worse with digital markups?

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smith.elliot3d agoTop Commenter

Honestly, digital markups are way better for version control and not losing a marked-up set under a pile of other prints. Plus you can actually search for specific comments later instead of squinting at handwriting on a physical sheet.

jake7473d ago

@smith.elliot hit the nail on the head. Started marking up PDFs last year and never looked back, especially when I need to pull up a comment from months ago and find it in two seconds flat. Saves so much headache digging through old paper stacks.

violag803d ago

Honestly never thought digital markups could beat paper til I tried it myself, now I get it.