Hi,
I am facing some issues when i try to annotate PDF-Files in DTTG 4:
I can’t select or change the color for anything
Underline, Text Highlight and so on could not be erased
Annotations could not be erased or edited.
Notes could not be moved or erased.
Drawings could not be moved or erased.
Best regards
Micha
iPhone or iPad?
i’m having the same problem on the iPad. It may be that the tools have been moved somewhere else, but if so, I can’t find them. You used to be able to delete or change an annotation by selecting it with your finger or the pencil, but that doesn’t seem to be an option anymore, The pop-up menu only includes things like copy annotation link.
On iPad and iPhone
Are you in editing mode?
Yes, I am in editing mode.
And there is something new:
When I want to create a note, only the icon appears, but it is not possible to write anything.
I also have a similar issue.
Additionally, could you add PDF highlighting and other annotations back to the pop-up window?
Original process:
① Select text → Pop-up window automatically appears → ② Highlight → ③ Complete and continue reading.
Current process:
① Open edit mode → ② Select highlight → ③ Select text → Highlight → Continue reading? – Yes → ④ Turn off highlight → ⑤ Continue reading.
Other annotations follow a similar process; the new version has too many steps. 
Also, the problem with adding annotations is similar to what others mentioned earlier: it’s impossible to add note to highlighted text.
Original process:
① click highlighted text → Pop-up window automatically appears → ② Note → Done.
I hope the original pop-up options can be retained, rather than only having copy and copy annotation link functions.
2 suggestions:
I have the same problem here.
PDF annotations are not useable at all at this stage.
Please use the same functionality as in DTTG 3 and update asap.
I just annotated a PDF in DTTG 4 and I noticed two things. One, I couldn’t figure out how to change the highlight color for an individual highlight. In the previous iteration of DTTG, I might tap the highlight and be given a choice of different colors to select. This feature is absent in DTTG 4.
I also noticed that working with this PDF on an iPad Pro M4 resulted in the iPad getting very hot and the battery draining by 10% within a few minutes.
I’d agree to Holgi’s statement:
I have the same problem here.
PDF annotations are not useable at all at this stage.
Please use the same (or better) functionality as in DTTG 3 and update asap.
Just to add my vote to those of others here.
I’d estimate that 50-60% of my workflow within DTTG (and DT) involves highlighting and adding notes in some shape or form. At present this is pretty much broken, meaning that I basically can’t work in the way that I have.
As the Beta is now closed I don’t think I’m talking out of school to say that the interface for this workflow was the same as has been in the very last beta so to say that I was shocked by the change would be an understatement.
I also agree with the opinions expressed here. I was writing a long message about the topic to send privately explaining some things, but it seems I’m not the only one who thinks the same way. As a beta tester, I didn’t have the opportunity to test this before the product launch, mostly due to a lack of time.
Aside from the problems mentioned around here, and although some are just a matter of getting used to the new interface, I really do miss the option to press with the Apple Pencil or select text and have a context menu appear to automatically underline or annotate. Not having that threw me off a lot, especially since the original SDK (at least in the manufacturer’s own PDF Viewer version) still maintains that interface. In fact, if we have text selected and the edit menu opens and the underline or highlight button is tapped, the action should be executed on the selected text. That is what one would expect.
But there are more problems I haven’t read about here: thanks to the Apple *Ass, the usable part of the screen is even smaller than before. The document going underneath the toolbars is very pretty but completely useless in terms of usability, especially since if you have the document in full screen, there are margins left around it that make a bad situation worse, which is that the menu bar is always fixed and doesn’t allow for full-screen ‘real estate.’ In my case, it’s enough to make me leave the manageable 11-inch iPad and have to work with the 13-inch one, and I don’t want to think about how bad that will look on the Mini. In fact, in my case, DTTG is currently a no-go for PDF management, which is 90% of the use I give it. For now, I’m getting by opening the file with PDF Viewer via the file manager and then going back to DTTG for synchronization. And that’s something that pisses me off because, having been able to detect that in the beta, I didn’t do it because I barely used it.
I think the ‘real estate’ problem should be solved as soon as possible.
And related to that, there is another thing that frustrates me a lot, and that is the inadvertent taps above the toolbar, which launch the PDF to the first page and then, in theory, if you tap again, take you back to the previous position, but—ah, my friend!—you have to be lucky enough to get it right the first time or else, well, start searching manually for the previous position, which isn’t much of a problem with a 10-page PDF, but it is with a 300-page one. Sometimes you have the little back arrow underneath, but other times not, and as far as I remember, not when you tap in the forbidden area.
Seriously, Erik, disable that or put in an option to disable it. In fact, for several builds now, that hasn’t worked in the SDK manufacturer’s reference App. You can’t even imagine how frustrating it is to have that happen when you’re concentrated on your things, and even more so if you can’t easily get back to where you were.
And one very minor thing that I personally liked a lot: the rounded edges in text highlighting. It’s childish, it’s inconsequential, but many times I kept using DTTG with PDFs just for that.
et al:
There is no removal of any functionality. Logically, it’s a bug and being investigated.
We have identified the issue. It simply didn’t strike before we activated the licensing system and so never happened in the public beta phase. Version 4.0.2 is on its way to the App Store review.
Excellent! These must be hectic times for you. To me (obviously subjective), DTTG3 pdf annotating has been class-leading on iOS. That’s quite the feat for a multi-purpose app, given the large number of dedicated pdf apps out there.
See @eboehnisch just above …
I removed my annotation by converting the PDF to one without annotations, removes everything but solved my specific problem.
Now DTTG 4 4.0.2 is deployed and everything is fine for me.
Thanks so much!
Thanks for the repair and update, it can be used normally in 4.0.2.
Hoping that the menu of the pop-up window can be turned into icons in the future to show more options. Now pure text seems to have fewer options.
