Added
- Insert PDF. A new toolbar button beside Insert image: pick a PDF from
your files or from the vault, then import all its pages or a range such as
1-3, 5(in the order you type it). The pages go in after the current
one, with the PDF as their background, and one undo takes them all out.
A PDF already in the vault is used as it is, not copied. This replaces
"Scanned PDF from Files": a PDF from the Files app's Scan Documents goes
in through Insert PDF now. - Drag and drop. Drop pictures or a PDF onto a notebook, from your
computer or from Obsidian's file list. Pictures are placed like Insert
image; a PDF opens the page choice. - New notebook from the file explorer. Right-click (long-press on the
iPad) a folder and choose New notebook to create one there. An optional
New notebook button beside New note and New folder can be turned on in
settings.
Changed
- Exported PDFs keep the original PDF. Pages with a PDF background now
export with the PDF's own text and graphics, sharp and selectable, with
your writing on top. Other pages export as before. - Sharp PDFs while you move. PDF pages are now drawn in the background,
away from the pen and the scrolling, so writing and panning stay smooth
while a page is being drawn. Zoomed in past 2.5x, the page is drawn sharp
in small tiles that fill in while you pan, nearest the middle of the screen
first and a little ahead of where you are going, so small print stays
crisp instead of going soft until you stop. Where background drawing is
not available, FineNotes draws as before.
Thanks to @Suzkapu for Insert PDF, drag and
drop, New notebook from the file explorer and the PDF export, and for the
zoomed-in PDF rendering the background tiles grew out of
(#5).
Fixed
- Writing over a PDF stays smooth while a page is being drawn. Drawing
a PDF page already paused for the pen, but only if it had not started yet;
one already under way kept interrupting the ink. It now waits until you
lift the pen. - PDF pages no longer go blank while zooming. After a zoom, a PDF page
showed as empty white paper until it was drawn again at the new size,
which takes a second or more on an iPad. It now keeps showing the page as
it was until the sharper version is ready. - Smoother writing on older iPads. Before iPadOS 26.2, the iPad rounds
the Pencil's position to a whole screen pixel before Obsidian sees it, so
lines came out wobbly and loops lumpy. FineNotes now smooths the Pencil's
path when its positions arrive rounded, as 1.0.1 did. iPads that report
exact positions draw exactly as before.
(#1)