Edit tools

Rename markup tools, change their colors, widths, fills and line styles, set their order, and use your own Linetype Studio line styles.

Click a tool in the list on the left. The Inspector on the right shows what you can change on it. Its heading says the tool's kind and mode, like "Cloud · properties mode".

Anything the Inspector doesn't show, like text styles, measurement scales and labels, is kept exactly as Revu wrote it.

What you can change #

The Inspector shows only what that kind of tool can change. Depending on the tool, that's:

Name in Tool Chest: Revu's label for the tool.
Line color, or Border color for text boxes and callouts. Tick none for no color.
Line width, or Border width, in points.
Line style: Solid or Dashed. For dashed, type the dash and gap lengths, repeating, like 4 4 or 12 3 2 3. See Use your own line styles.
Fill color, or Arrowhead fill on lines and arrows.
Fill opacity and Opacity, in percent.
Multiply: like a highlighter, it doesn't cover what's under it.
Cloud edge, with its Bump size.
Line ends: the start, then the end, like plain or closed arrow.

Counts, stamps and other tools can only be renamed.

Every change is one step you can undo with Undo in the top bar.

When the tool is used #

When used sets what the tool does in Revu:

draw new (properties): you draw a new markup with these properties.
place as saved (drawing): it places the saved markup as it is.

What stays as Revu stored it #

The Inspector says when part of a tool can't be changed here:

A tool that draws a stored symbol, like a count or a stamp, keeps its colors inside the symbol.
A group of markups is placed as saved. You can rename, reorder, duplicate or delete it.
A measurement tool's scale is set in Revu.
A text box's font and text color are kept as Revu stored them.

Use your own line styles #

You can give a tool one of the line styles you made in Linetype Studio.

Select the tool and click Use one of my line styles… under Line style.
Pick a library from your projects, or click Import .blx… to use a .blx file.
Search if you need to, then click Use this style.

The style is copied into this tool set, so later changes to the library don't move it. To take the library's current version, click Refresh from library. Choose another… swaps it, and Remove goes back to the line style Revu stored. When a library style is refreshed, every tool in the set that uses it follows.

For now, this is approximate: the tool gets Revu's plain dashed line with the style's dash-and-gap rhythm. Symbols and text along the line aren't drawn yet.

A library shows up here once it's pushed into a project. You need to be signed in to see them.

Order the tools #

Revu shows the tools in the order of the list. To change it, drag a tool by its grip, or select it and press Alt with the up or down arrow.

Duplicate, reset or delete a tool #

At the bottom of the Inspector:

Duplicate: a copy of the tool.
Undo my edits: puts the tool back to exactly what Revu stored. It only shows once you've changed the tool.
Delete: removes the tool from the set, after you confirm.