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Overview of Lumin PDF's new editor

An overview of the redesigned Lumin PDF editor interface, covering direct text editing, form building, annotation tools, and real-time cloud collaboration.

NOTE: During its BETA phase, the new editor has only been released to a small portion of our customers.


Information Bar

This section provides users with access to essential features such as the document name, editing history, document settings, sharing options, support requests, notifications, and profile settings.


Tool Groups

Favourites - where users can find commonly used tools such as the highlighter, free text, draw, shape, signature, and comment tools.

Mark up - where users can find all of the tools they need to annotate their documents.

Fill & Sign - where the signature, form builder, and text tools live.

Edit text - the most popular PDF editing tool; this tool allows users to add or change embedded text in the document.

Security - where users can find security tools like Redaction and Password protection.

Organize - where users can access tools for manipulating pages, including merging, splitting, extracting, moving, and more.

Explore - use this to search for tools or Lumin AI.


Toolbar

The toolbar at the top of the interface is dynamic and responsive. The tools displayed on the right side adapt based on the category selected by the user from the tool groups.

From here, users can access static tools that are essential for navigating within the editor smoothly.

This ensures that users have easy access to the specific tools they need for their editing tasks.


Right-Side Toolbar

Lumin AI - allows users to access Lumin's AI sidekick which has an Ask and Agent mode.

Search - allows users to search for specific keywords within the document.

Comments History - where users can find all of the comments made by all users within the document.

Download - used to save the file to the user's desktop.

Print - used to print the document.

Link - used to quickly copy the link of the document to the user's clipboard.


FAQs

Can I switch back to the old experience?

Yes you can. To do this, click more options next to the Share button. Then, click the toggle for 'New PDF Viewer'.

Where can I find help?

You may contact us via [email protected] if you need assistance.


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