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Please forgive me if this has already been requested.

I would like to request a feature that allows you to add multiple arrows or leader lines to the callout box. the way I have to do it now is I place a callout box, then have to draw individual arrows from the callout box to the object. If I have to move the callout box I then have to re position the other arrows.

i am currently running version 7 (build 325.1)

Hello cadirkin,

Welcome to our forums and thanks for the post!
I am afraid that the call-out tool is described in the PDF specification in such a way that only one leader line is supported, and unfortunately we can not deviate from the ISO standard.

Regards,
Stefan

The callout tool can be used with one single arrow with PDFXchange or other softwares, what you can do actually is to draw an arrow and connect it to the joint of the callout box like I did here.
One of these belongs to the callout and the other are manual arrows, unfortunately this doesn't solve the problem but it's a workaround, I have used 3 PDF editors and none of them had this feature.

Hello Humam2104,

Thank you for the suggested workaround, I am sure this will help some other users in this situation. As Stefan said unfortunately we cannot go against the PDF specification, but if this changes in the future we will reconsider this as a new feature.

Kind regards,

Hello Daniel,

I'm always happy to help.

King Regards,

Hi,

I was wondering if this feature is available yet? Bluebeam has callouts with multiple leaders. Not sure if the ISO PDF standard has changed or if they just do what they want.

Thanks, Galen

Hello, galen

Unfortunately no, these still do not exist in the PDF Spec. The Spec takes a very long time to make changes, and given the rate of change within the spec, I do not expect this to come along anytime soon, I am very sorry to say. It will likely still be many more years still before we hear of a change in this area, and can start working on our own implementation of it.

Kind regards,