We're excited to announce v0.1 of Deta — bringing powerful new features for managing drawing revisions and seamless integration with your existing workflows.
Dropbox Integration
Work with your existing Dropbox files without changing your workflow:
- Open files directly from Dropbox — Annotate PDFs stored in Dropbox without downloading
- Automatic import — When a file is updated in Dropbox, changes are automatically imported
- Your markups stay safe — Local annotations are preserved in branches, never overwritten
- Save back to Dropbox — Export your annotated drawings to Dropbox over the existing file or as a new file anytime
Version History & Branching
Keep your markups organized across revisions:
- Full version history — See all versions of a drawing in one timeline
- Create branches — Isolate your markups and keep different concerns separated
- Toggle edit permissions — Lock branches when they're finalized, or unlock them for further edits
New Measurement Tools
- Perimeter measurement — Calculate the total length around any shape
- Metric support — Full support for metric units
- Unit selection — Choose your preferred unit system
- Display precision — Control how many decimal places are shown
Numbered Points
Mark locations with automatically numbered dots — perfect for punch lists, inspection points, or referencing specific areas in your drawings.
PDF Search
Find what you're looking for quickly:
- Search within drawings — Search for text on the current page or across all pages
- Navigate results — Jump between matches
Text & Annotation Improvements
- More fonts — Expanded font selection
- Text formatting — Underline, strikethrough, and text alignment options
- Custom dimension labels — Add your own text to measurement lines
Import & Export
- Standard PDF compatibility — Import and export markups as standard PDF annotations
- Comment threads — Import and export threaded comments
- Page scales — Scales are preserved when exporting and re-importing
Thumbnail Navigation
New visual page navigator with thumbnail previews — quickly browse and jump to any page in large documents.
Enhanced UI and UX Experience
- Property Panel — Consolidated and improved property panel for easier access to annotation settings
- Landscape mode — Full support for landscape orientation on phones
- Improved performance — Memory-optimized rendering and faster real-time rendering on large drawings