Mini tutorials
26 bite-size walkthroughs — one for every tool, every editor action and every job in the creation zone, most with the note that saves you a second attempt. Want the full picture? Read the complete guides.
Last reviewed: August 8, 2026
Combine several PDFs into one file, in the exact order you choose, with a full preview before you download.
Pull just the pages you need out of a larger PDF, either into a single file or as separate PDFs in a ZIP.
Ranges are inclusive and use the page numbers you see in the preview, not the printed numbers on the page — those two disagree whenever a document has a cover sheet.
Drag pages into the order you want and drop the ones that should not ship, working from thumbnails rather than page numbers.
Reordering here and numbering later is the right sequence. Page numbers applied before a reorder end up shuffled with the pages they were printed on.
Rotate a whole document, or just the pages a scanner fed in the wrong way, without re-encoding the page content.
Rotation changes the page's orientation flag rather than redrawing it, so a scan loses no quality however many times you turn it.
Stamp consistent page numbers onto a document once its page order is final.
Do this last. Numbering is the step that assumes the page order will not change again.
Encrypt a document with a password and control whether recipients can print, copy, or edit it.
The password is used in your browser and is never sent anywhere, which also means nobody can recover it for you. Store it before you close the tab.
Remove encryption from a document you are authorized to open, so the other tools and the editor can work on it.
Unlock first, then edit, then protect again if the finished file needs it. Most "the tool did nothing" reports are an encrypted input reaching a tool that cannot open it.
Get typing on a form in seconds — the AI scan finds the fields so you can go straight to filling them in.
Toggle detected checkboxes with a click, and switch to a cross for forms that expect an X.
Add a real, hand-drawn signature with a mouse, finger, or stylus, then size it to fit the signing line.
Mark up text like a real highlighter — one stroke snaps neatly to each line it covers.
Cover an outdated value with a page-colored box that hugs exactly the text you drag over.
Cover behaves like correction fluid and leaves underlying content recoverable. Remove rasterizes the affected page so the covered content is absent, with the trade-off that text, links, fields, annotations, and tags on that page are lost. Inspect the export before sharing it.
Ask the AI to look again after you change the document — new fields merge in without touching your work.
Get a field pixel-perfect using numeric position controls or the corner resize handles.
Work comfortably on tight, small-boxed forms and snap back to a full-page fit in one click.
Finish up with a download or a direct print, and give the result a quick check before you submit.
Exports keep real text wherever the source allows it. A document that cannot be decrypted or whose structure is damaged is rebuilt as page images instead — correct on screen and on paper, but no longer selectable.
Install Novus as a standalone app so the tools and editor still open when the network does not.
The first visit has to be online and ad slots stay blank offline, but every document operation is unaffected — it was already running on your device.
The creation zone opens on eight starting points, including letters, notes, invoices, intake forms, applications and consent records, each written as scaffolding to replace.
Choosing a template replaces the whole document: title, file name, paper size, margins, page numbering and every block. Pick one before you start writing rather than after.
The two blocks every document in the creation zone is built from, each styled on its own.
Text wraps to the column measured in the real font, and the line breaks you type survive: a blank line stays a blank line, while runs of spaces inside a line collapse the way they do in any flowed text.
Put an image on a page you are building in the creation zone, at the width you choose.
PNG and JPEG go in as they are; WebP, AVIF, GIF and SVG are converted to PNG in the tab first, so an unusable file is caught while you are still choosing it. The alt-text box is kept with the block but is not yet written into the exported PDF.
A real drawn line in the creation zone, instead of a row of underscores that re-wraps the moment the font changes.
A rule carries eight points of air, four above and four below, so it reads as a separator rather than as an underline for the paragraph above it.
Page breaks and spacing blocks in the creation zone, and what the layout does with a block that will not fit.
An image or a rule that does not fit the room left moves to the next page whole; a paragraph splits line by line instead. A page break at the very top does not produce a blank page.
Match the printer before you write: the creation zone offers six paper sizes plus a custom one, both orientations, and margins per edge.
Margins are measured to the text itself, so a 72-point top margin puts the top of the first line one inch below the paper edge. Margins too large to leave any room are ignored, and the preview says so rather than silently inverting the page.
Page numbering in the creation zone: six positions, three formats, and the option to leave a title page unnumbered.
Numbers are stamped on at export rather than during layout, so they never appear in the preview — check them in the downloaded file. With the first page left unnumbered the count covers only the numbered pages: a three-page document reads “1 of 2” then “2 of 2”.
Download what you built in the creation zone under a name you choose, and see how many pages you actually got.
Characters a file system will not accept — slashes, colons, quotes and the like — become hyphens, and an empty name falls back to “document.pdf”.
The creation zone has a real table block: cells that wrap inside their own column, rows that grow to their tallest cell, and borders that are drawn rather than typed.
This is the thing a monospaced paragraph cannot be. A long cell wraps inside its column instead of running into the next one, and the row grows to fit; columns are sized from what is in them unless you weight them yourself. Padding a Courier paragraph with spaces will not stand in for it — a paragraph collapses every run of whitespace to a single space, so the padding is destroyed before the font is consulted.
Tip
After filling a field, focus jumps to the next empty one — you can complete simple forms without touching the mouse.
Merging, splitting, rotating, numbering, protecting, and unlocking each have a dedicated workspace in PDF tools — no editor needed.
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