Shape Tool toggle
I much prefered it when we could toggle the shape tool on and off(goodnotes 4), rather than having a shape tool that only really works with the pen tool and not the highlighter tool. The highlighter shape recognition is missing, why? You can draw a straight line with the highlighter, but if you want to do anything more complex like geometry it does not work.
We’re happy to announce that the update 5.6.0 that we released today adds an improved shape recognition including the option to hold at the end of a line to make a perfect shape, shape selection, and curve drawing. This also works with the highlighter and can be used to draw shapes other than lines with it.
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Owen commented
In GN 4, I used the shape/highlighter combination all the time. Why? Because lots of times I get a scanned document, rather than computer generated PDF, so there's no "text" (unless I take the time to run OCR).
I liked being able to draw boxes (in highlighter) around paragraphs, now it's not possible to do this with the highlighter tool neatly.
A great alternative is to select the shape tool, and enable fill shape. GN5 creates the outline and the shape as 2 separate actions, so a single "undo" removes the shape outline and leaves the highlighter.
I'm happy with this behaviour, but it's non-obvious