How to highlight in solid color instead of a circle around the text?

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November 2, 2020
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Hello everyone!

I just found that the highlighting tool is working differently recently on my computer. It usually highlights the text with solid colors, like in pic 1. But now it can only highlight the text with a circle around the text, like in pic 2. I wonder if anyone has the same problem and how to change it back.

Thanks!

Pic 1

Pic 2

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Correct answer defaultkjq9pm36d5bl

Hi,

I have the same problem. Any solutions yet? Tried to repair installation, it did not help. It's really annoying, as this "highlight" is not really helping me see any part of the text better...

Hi again - as I wrote this comment, it started working again. The only thing that I did in between was to log in to Adobe, in order to post here. Maybe that's the problem? Have you tried logging in?

kathy_inga

Participant

I had the same issue.... i quite out of Adobe Acrobat and restarted it was working properly again.

kathy_inga

Participant

quit not quite

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arvindy

Adobe Employee

Hi,
We tried but not able to reproduce the issue in-house.
Could you please provide the following info?
-Does it occur with all files or specific to some files?
-Is it always reproducible or intermittent?
-Is it possible to provide some sample files ?

Regards,
Arvind

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planttax

Participant

Not OP but experiencing the same issue. Not specific but rather occurring with all files opened in adobe reader. So far it has been always reproducible, though this appears to be a new issue because last week it was working fine. Attached two sample files in which the highlights appear to be circles in my version of adobe, as well as a screen capture so you can see how it looks if it doesn't show the error in those files.

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:063e303e-5c78-4c98-8ccb-3fd99eec68a5

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:545ac94e-7ce5-42fb-96d0-118a1cfe96a7

Thom Parker

Community Expert

Looks like either some of the Highlight property defaults are set improperly, or it's a bug in Acrobat. Can you post a file with the hollowed out highlight?

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Friendly_future5FE6Author

Participating Frequently

I'd love to, but it seems I cannot upload a file to this comment area... Any idea of how I can share it?

try67

Community Expert

You can attach it to the original message using the tiny paperclip icon at the bottom when you edit it, or upload it to a file-sharing website (like Dropbox, Google Drive, Adobe Cloud, etc.), generate a share link and then post it here.

Document Geek

Community Expert

That looks too precise to be the freeform highlighter tool. Indeed, it looks like the regular highlighter tool is behaving unusually. I'm not experiencing that same behavior.

What version of Acrobat are you using?