PocketDraw has two major modes of operation. At any point in time you are either managing documents or editing them.

Document View

Figure 1 on the right shows a blank document that's been opened for editing. The largest portion of the screen is occupied by the document's canvas, which is where all drawing takes place.

Documents can have any size canvas, although depending on their size and the view magnification level (also called zoom), only some portions of the document may be visible on the screen.

To scroll the view to parts of the document that aren't visible you can use the Pan tool (see Tools) or scroll bars. In Figure 1 the scroll bars have been hidden to conserve space (see View in the menus section of this tutorial).

In addition to the canvas, the document view also contains a menu bar, and optional Symbol and Tool palettes.

Figure 1. Layout of the document Edit View.

Document List

Whenever you don't have a document open for editing, PocketDraw displays the Document List. Figure 2 shows PocketDraw's document list.

To open a document, tap on its name in the document list.

Tap-and-hold on a name in the Document List to get its popup context menu. It contains items that let you rename, move, and even beam documents them to other devices.

Clicking on the New button at the bottom left corner of the screen creates a new document and opens it for editing.

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Figure 2. The PocketDraw Document List view.