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| Previous Features | New Features | |
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| 1 | Comments could be made using the point tab or area feature and appear in the margin(a) or made as "free text" anywhere on the document(b). a.
b.  | Comments now indicated by the point tab(a) and appear in pop-up text box or at the end of highlighted text(ab). a. b.  |
| 2 | Document drawing(a), strikethrough(b), and highlighting(c). a.  b.  c.
| Highlighting and highlighting w/ comments still available(in single highlight color). Document drawing and strikethrough are no longer supported at this time.
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| 3 | Instructors can download the annotated PDF with their markups. | Downloading annotated PDFs option is currently not supported in the new viewer. The download feature simply downloads the original text without markups. Annotations made to documents in the previous viewer prior to January 12, 2018 will be saved and will be able to be downloaded. |
| 4 | Supported file types for upload and conversion: PDF, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, DOC, and DOCX | Supported file types for upload and conversion: Many additional file types supported, including images, audio, video. Supported file types for upload and conversion in Assignments tool. |
| 5 | Supported file types for annotation: PDF, PPT, PPTX, XLS, XLSX, DOC, and DOCX | Supported file types for annotation: PDF, PPT, PPTX, DOC, DOCX(all annotation) AI, BMP, DCM, EPS, GIF, PNG, PS, PSD, SVS, TGA, TIF, and TIFF(point annotation only) |
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