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Mike P.58
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Enable iOS Markup toolset capability from a PDF loaded from Dropbox

I’m a mature student who’s gone back to school to advance my career capacity. I’ve meticulously set up Dropbox folder structures to sort and hold my course information assets such as PDFs. While in c...
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Nancy
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Welcome to the Community, Mike P.58! I hope you’re doing well. 

 

First of all, I’d like to thank you for your feedback on this; I’ve also passed it to our team, so that they can see your comments. 

 

Besides that, a workaround that I believe could work for you is enabling Dropbox as a location in your Files app, and then opening your PDFs from there directly. This should allow you to use the markup features from iOS and the changes should save back to your Dropbox account.

 

Hope this helps!

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Mike P.58
Explorer | Level 4
2 years ago

Thanks! I've tried loading a PDF from Dropbox using iOS's Files App. I get a roadblock notification to the effect of, "Cannot Open This File". While it opens ok in Preview App on Mac OS. 

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