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It was the only way I could annotate PDFs without paying money using a Wacom One Tablet and a stylus in MacOS. That was one useful use.
Could you expand on this please?
So, it gets kind of complicated, but basically I bought the Wacom One to use as a drawing tablet with Windows, Linux, and MacOS for PC/laptop drawing programs like Krita and Corel Painter (Humble Bundle purchase). Also had an iPad Pro that was slightly busted to take notes on PDFs of Powerpoints using GoodReader. Now I can't remember if I failed to bring it with me or if it wasn't working, but I only had my MacBook Pro and and the Wacom tablet to take notes with for a couple of months. Apple's default PDF viewer Preview and even an app I had paid for a long time ago, Clearview, had no drawing annotation capabilities. But Microsoft Edge has a drawing annotation tool for PDFs that even Firefox doesn't have. I think it comes from Microsoft Edge being the default PDF viewer in Windows.
thank you. I believe you are correct about edge being the default pdf viewer. Microsoft made edge into a big fat one tool to do everything chrome replacement.
which turned out to be useful on a Macbook, haha. Annotating PDFs with a drawing tool wouldn't have been a problem on Linux.