# How to collect feedback on a PDF or images

Create a board from a PDF or images, share its link, and collect pinned comments and a review decision.

Use a board to send a PDF or a set of images to a client or a teammate as one link. Reviewers pin comments on the file and finish with an approval or a request for changes, and they do not need an account. In the app each one is called a board. You create and track boards on the [Feedback page](/dashboard/feedback).

## How to create a board

1. **Open Feedback.** Open the [Feedback page](/dashboard/feedback) in the workspace the board belongs to.
2. **Click Create board.** A dialog opens for your files.
3. **Check the file type.** A PDF board accepts PDF files only. An image board accepts PNG, JPG, GIF, WebP, BMP, SVG, HEIC and HEIF files.
4. **Add your files** to the dialog. Dropbox or Google Drive appear when your account has connected them.
5. **Wait for every file to upload.** Each file uploads as soon as you add it. **Create board** stays disabled until every file is uploaded.
6. **Click Create board again.** Once the board is created, you can share it.
7. **Share the link.** Send the link to your reviewers. To find it again later, hover over the board's card on the Feedback page and click **Share**.

Before you click **Create board**, you can tick **Add password** and type the password into **Set a password**, tick **Add deadline** and choose a date and time, or tick **Allow downloads**, so viewers get a **Download** button. The [deadlines article](/help/feedback/feedback-deadlines-and-closing) explains what a deadline does, and [how to let viewers download a board](/help/feedback/feedback-allow-downloads) explains the download button.

## What reviewers can do

Reviewers open the link. The first time they comment or review, Tarkle asks for a name and an email under **Let us know who you are**. If you set a password, reviewers must enter it first.

Reviewers can:

- click a spot on the file to pin a comment there;
- reply to a comment;
- tag people with @: a teammate, or anyone who has already commented on the board. One comment can tag up to 10 people;
- attach one file to a comment: a PNG, JPEG, WebP or GIF image up to 10 MB, an SVG up to 2 MB, or a PDF up to 25 MB. Tarkle checks the real file type and refuses an SVG that could run script. Pasting or dropping a file into the comment box attaches it;
- finish with a decision. In the review form titled **Finish reviewing this board**, they choose **Approve this work** or **Request changes**, add a note in **Additional comments (optional)** if they want, and click **Submit review**.

A signed-in team member cannot submit a review. The [reviewer guide](/help/feedback/feedback-leave-feedback) covers the steps in more detail.

## What your team can do

Team members are never asked for a board's password, so they open a protected board directly.

- **Set a status.** Each comment is **Active**, **In Progress**, **In Review** or **Resolved**. Choosing **Resolved** also marks the comment resolved, and the person who wrote the comment is emailed when the status changes. Assign a comment to a teammate, who is emailed too. See [comment statuses and assignees](/help/feedback/feedback-statuses-assignees-filters).
- **Reply for the team only.** A team-only reply is hidden from guests. It cannot tag a guest: Tarkle shows **Team-only replies can't tag guests** and posts nothing. A reply under a team-only comment is team-only too.
- **Change the board's settings.** Open **Board actions** on the board page. It holds **Add password** or **Disable password**, **Add deadline** or **Edit deadline**, **Allow downloads** or **Disable downloads**, and **Disable comments** or **Enable comments**. Only the owner and members with the edit-files permission can change these. Team members also see **Enable notifications** or **Disable notifications**.
- **Manage the board from its card.** On the Feedback page, hover over a board's card and click **More actions**. Then:
- **Customize URL** is not on the Free plan. See [plans and pricing](/pricing) for the plans that include it.
- **Archive board** is available to any team member. An archived board leaves the list, shows under the **Archived** tab and no longer opens for reviewers. Restoring it counts toward your plan's active-board limit.
- **Delete board** is for the owner and admins. The confirmation warns that the board and all of its feedback will be deleted, and you click **Delete** to confirm.

## Emails from a board

When someone posts a comment or a reply, everyone who has taken part on the board is emailed: the workspace owner, guests who have commented and teammates who have commented. The person who wrote the comment and anyone tagged in it are not emailed about it. A tagged person gets a mention email instead. A team-only note goes to team members only. Each person gets at most one of these emails per board every 5 minutes, and comments that arrive in that time are sent later together in one digest email. A review decision always emails the workspace owner. See [Which emails does Feedback send](/help/feedback/feedback-emails) for each one.

## Limits and good to know

- On the Free plan, you can have up to 5 active boards in each workspace. Pro and Agency have no board limit. See [plans and pricing](/pricing) or [Feedback plans and limits](/help/feedback/feedback-plans-and-limits).
- Comments and replies cannot be edited. Only a comment's status, its resolved state and its assignee change. A comment can hold up to 4,000 characters.
- Tarkle allows 10 comments a minute and 120 an hour from one address on one board. Past that, it shows "You're going a little fast. Wait a moment and try again."
- When the deadline passes, or when someone chooses **Disable comments**, the board stays visible but nobody can post. Reviews are closed too.

## What happens next

Comments appear on the board as reviewers post them. A submitted decision is added to the **Activity** list in the review form, and the workspace owner is emailed about it.

## Related articles

- [How do I create a feedback board?](/help/feedback/feedback-create-a-board)
- [How do reviewers leave feedback?](/help/feedback/feedback-leave-feedback)
- [How to create a file transfer](/help/file-sharing/how-to-create-a-file-transfer)

Source: https://tarkle.com/help/file-sharing/collect-feedback-on-pdf-or-images-canvas