How do i add a simple triangle (equilateral or isoceles) to a pdf document?

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How do I add a simple triangle (equilateral or isosceles) to a pdf document?

Corollary questions: Once drawn, can I copy it and rotate it?

Why have Acrobat's drawing tools gotten markedly worse over time?

try67 · Accepted Answer

A right triangle is easy to draw using the Polygon commenting tool, but not the types you mentioned. I would use a script to do it.

And yes, you can move a comment once drawn, but you can't rotate it.

In what way did it get worse?

Fresh_Prince_of_Bel_Air · Answer

Thanks for the quick response. You are quite right that the Acrobat drawing tools have not gotten worse. They have always been lame. I sometimes conflate Acrobat with other Adobe apps.

A simple fix by Adobe would be to add the length of a side as a Polygon property. That way, once you create a polygon of any number of sides, it could be easily adjusted to the desired symmetry.

Another simple workaround is simply to create the triangle (or any other shape, for that matter) in PowerPoint, which is an infinitely more useful drawing app, and copy-paste it into your pdf. PDFFill is another good alternative.

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