Depict, annotate, and use Scribble in Pages

Describe, comment, and use Scribble to turn handwriting into text with an Apple Pencil on iPad. Y'all tin can besides draw and annotate with your finger on iPhone, iPad, or iPod impact.

You can also employ Select and Whorl with Apple Pencil to select objects and ringlet in your document.

Plow handwriting into text with Scribble

With Scribble, you tin can plow handwriting into text with an Apple tree Pencil on a supported iPad.* When you lot pair an Apple Pencil with an iPad, Scribble is on by default. To check the Scribble setting, or to plow it off, become to Settings > Apple tree Pencil on your iPad.

  1. In a certificate, tap Apple Pencil in the body of a discussion-processing document where you desire to write. Or tap in a text box, shape, or in a table cell in a word-processing or page layout document.
  2. Tap the Scribble tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, and then showtime writing.
    Pages document with the Scribble tool selected in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen

As y'all write with Apple Pencil, you lot can likewise delete words, insert text, and more than:

  • To delete a give-and-take, scratch it out.
  • To insert text betwixt words, tap and concur in a text area, then commencement writing when a space opens.
  • To join or split up characters, describe a vertical line between them.
  • To select text, circle it or draw a line through it. Drag the selection handles to change the selection.

The toolbar also has buttons to indent, format, and align text, besides as to insert folio breaks, bookmarks, and more.

* You can modify to another supported linguistic communication in the toolbar if y'all've added the keyboard for the linguistic communication in Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards. Check to see which languages and regions Scribble supports.

Add a drawing

You tin depict in a document with Apple Pencil (on supported devices), or with your finger.

  1. To draw with Apple Pencil, tap your Pencil on the page. To use your finger, or if yous've turned on Select and Scroll, tap the Insert button, tap the Media button, then tap Drawing.
  2. Tap one of the iv drawing tools at the bottom of the screen: the pen, pencil, crayon, or the make full tool.
    Pencil tools palette with drawing tool selected
  3. To describe with a different stroke size and opacity, tap one of the drawing tools twice, and so tap a new stroke size. Or drag the slider to adapt the opacity.
  4. Y'all can describe with a different color:
  5. To erase, tap the eraser, and then tap it once more to choose i of the erasers:
    • To erase pixels, tap Pixel Eraser, so tap or drag on the drawing.
    • To erase a whole stroke, tap the Object Eraser, so tap the stroke or object fill yous want to erase.
  6. To undo the terminal activity, tap the Undo button .
  7. When you're finished, tap Done.

To proceed drawing with Apple Pencil, simply kickoff drawing on the folio.

Resize and move your drawing

After y'all add the cartoon, y'all can resize and move it:

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

Edit parts of a drawing

  1. Tap the drawing, and so tap Edit Drawing from the pop-up carte.
  2. Tap the selection tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, and so tap or elevate around drawing you want to edit. An outline appears effectually the selection.
  3. Tap an option in the popular-up bill of fare:
    • To resize a option, tap Resize, so drag the handles of the box around the drawing.
    • To brand one drawing into two drawings, tap Separate in the pop-up menu.
    • Yous can also cut, copy, paste, delete, and duplicate a selection.

Animate a drawing

You can breathing a cartoon and then that it appears as if it's being fatigued.

  1. If you're in cartoon mode, tap Washed. Otherwise, get to the next step.
  2. Tap the drawing to select it.
  3. Tap the Format button, then tap Drawing.
  4. Turn on Breathing Cartoon, so adjust other options such every bit duration.
  5. To play back the blitheness, tap Play or Play Drawing.

You tin can share or salvage a drawing from your document as a PNG paradigm file, or—if y'all animated the drawing—as a PNG image file or an M4V movie file.

  1. If you're in cartoon style, tap Done. Otherwise, go to the next stride.
  2. Tap the drawing to select it, then cull Share. If you animated the cartoon, cull Share as Paradigm or Share as Movie.
  3. Choose how you want to send your prototype or moving picture, like with Mail or Messages. Or, choose Save Paradigm (or Save Video for blithe drawings) to save to the Photos app.

Piece of work with drawings on a Mac

Add an notation

When you add together annotations to text, objects, or table cells in a document, the annotations motility with the text or objects equally you edit.

  1. To add an notation with Apple Pencil, tap anywhere on the page, then tap the annotation tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen. To use your finger, or if you've turned on Select and Coil, tap the More push, then tap Smart Annotation.Pencil tools with annotation tool selected
  2. Tap Pen to add marks or tap Highlighter to highlight text.
  3. Add your annotations.
  4. You can likewise annotate with a different colour:
  5. To erase, tap the Eraser tool in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, so tap the note. To erase all annotations, tap the More button in the toolbar at the bottom of the screen, then tap Erase All Smart Annotations.
  6. To minimize the toolbar, elevate it to the corner of the screen. To prove the whole toolbar, tap the minimized toolbar.
  7. To scroll the folio when using Apple Pencil, swipe with 1 finger. If you're using your finger to comment, swipe with two fingers.
  8. When you're finished, tap Washed.

You can delete an annotation later on it's been added. Tap the annotation, then tap Delete. If you delete the text or object that you lot've annotated, y'all also delete the annotation.

If you want to just hibernate annotations:

To go on annotating with Apple Pencil, only start writing on the folio.

Export a document with annotations

If you export your certificate every bit a PDF with annotations turned on, they'll announced on the PDF. Annotations don't appear on documents exported as Discussion, RTF, EPUB, or Pages '09 files.

Work with annotations on a Mac

If you're using iCloud to keep all your Pages documents upwardly to date across all your devices, annotations announced in your document on all your devices. On a Mac, you tin remove, bear witness, or hide annotations when editing a document.

  • To delete an note, select the annotation, and then press Delete.
  • To remove all annotations, cull Edit > Remove Smart Annotations.
  • To evidence or hide all annotations, cull View > Bear witness/Hibernate Smart Annotations.

By default, you can use Apple Pencil to start drawing or annotating. You can prepare Pages to utilize your Apple Pencil to select objects and scroll in your documents instead:

  1. In Pages, tap the More button .
  2. Tap Apple Pencil, then turn on Select and Scroll.

If your Apple tree Pencil supports it, y'all can plough on Double-Tap to Switch. With Double-Tap to Switch, just double-tap the lower part of Apple Pencil to turn Select and Scroll on and off.

To add a drawing or note to a document when Select and Curlicue is turned on, tap the Insert button, tap the Media push, tap Drawing, then tap a drawing or notation tool in the toolbar.

Pages, Numbers, and Keynote each have their own setting for Select and Scroll. For example, if you turn on Select and Scroll in Pages, it doesn't affect Keynote or Numbers.

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