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GS321
Collaborator | Level 9
6 years ago
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Editing PDFs in Dropbox from my iPad

I'm trying to edit/markup PDFs that I have stored in Dropbox from my iPad. I'm using an Apple Pencil that's capable of "markup."  The adobe integration was meant to be the answer for this; however,...
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  • hecksome's avatar
    hecksome
    4 years ago

    A work around: use the "files" app on the iPad which should show dropbox as a folder, then view the pdf and markup there.

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SarahSShah
New member | Level 2
5 years ago

I downloaded Notablilty and upload my pdfs drop dropbox to Notability in order to mark them up (its a beautiful, smoothly working app and I highly recommend it). You can then share this marked up file back to dropbox/adobe/Files in iPad etc. Its not a perfect solution (even irritating sometimes if you have multiple files) but Adobe and Dropbox dont leave much choice at the moment. 

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