How to Highlight in Straight Lines

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Hello,My version of Adobe Acrobat Reader was recently updated, and now the highlighting tool acts more as a "pen" or doodle" tool that only locks onto lines of text and conforms to them as a straight line if the line I draw is very close to a straight line. Does anyone know if there is a way to highlight text so that it snaps to the lines of text neatly every time? I am finding it difficult to highlight the text I need to with the new free-form line drawing version of the highlighting tool. Thank you for anyone who may have an solution.Patrick

try67 · Answer

Are you able to select the text using any other tools? If not, then it's not real text, but an image that contains text. As such, the highlighter tool reverts to "free form" mode when you use it on top of that image. If you place it above "real" text it will switch back to text selection mode.

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