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Blackboard Text 2.4.1
New drawing tools, page history, and PNG/PDF export. Includes the interface
pass prepared as 2.3.3 and the feature work prepared as 2.4.0. Short links
need the 2.4 short-link service, which accepts the new format.
Added
- A small drawing toolbar beside page navigation: pen, marker, eraser and
select, then Undo and More. Opening it never moves your text, changes
wrapping or jumps the scroll position. On phones it sits above page
navigation. - Tap the active tool for its ink: six sizes, theme ink, four chalk colours,
a custom colour and your recent colours, plus the tool's own switch
(pressure for the pen, whole-stroke erasing, delete for a selection). - Shift draws straight lines and Alt erases temporarily. Select moves or
restyles a stroke. Drawing Redo. Each tool remembers its own settings. - More → Attach new strokes to words pins an annotation to a word: typing
before the word moves it along; deleting the word turns it into a free
stroke instead of deleting it. - Export PNG or PDF from Settings → Page actions, with text and
drawings. Long pages become a multipage PDF. The PDF is an image of the
board, so its text cannot be selected; use TXT or Markdown for that. - Page history keeps up to 25 versions of each page (100 in total,
10 MB) in this browser. Recovering a version creates a new page. - Pin pages; search results show a snippet of the matching text.
- Describe drawings for people who read a shared copy with a screen reader.
- Link management backup (Settings → Your data) exports the keys that
disable your short links, encrypted with a passphrase, so you can manage
them from another browser. It contains no note text. - Interface language: English or Russian. Your own text is never translated.
Changed
- New strokes use one smoother renderer in the editor, the reader and exports.
Older strokes keep their look until More → Smooth existing, which Undo
can reverse. - Drawings stay sharp however long the page gets.
- Settings keeps its title and Reset in place while the middle scrolls, and
runs Pages → Theme → Layout → Colours → Your data. - Dialogs are centred and share one style; Delete and Clear confirmations are
opaque. One stroked icon set, press feedback on every control, and short
motion that respects Reduce Motion. - New backups and shared notes use format version 2. This release still opens
version-1 backups and links; older apps refuse version-2 files instead of
silently dropping drawing details, so update every copy you use.
Fixed
- Reloading no longer jumps the note to an old scroll position, and a late
scroll restore can't override a scroll you just made. - The colour picker and font menu no longer close when the pointer leaves them.
- Save errors are tracked per operation; a successful save clears the warning.