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Highlight tool not transparent and covers text.

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
October 13, 2022
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I've been using adobe acrobat pro on a windows pc for a few months now and the highlight tool had been working fine, and I assume, how it was intended. The properties have been set at 100% opacity the entire time but the text was still clearly visible behind the bright green color I use. However, recently I have been very frustrated because I did not change any settings and now my highlighter just covers up the text so it is unreadable. When I change the opactiy, the words become more visible as the opacity is lowered, but when the opacity is lowered, the color becomes very dull and almost unnoticable. This is clearly not how the highlight tool is supposed to work, since highlighters are obviously used to make certain text pop and attract eyes to that point. I do not want to lower the opacity because it was working fine at 100% opacity previously. My adobe acrobat pro is up-to-date, plus I have tried repairing installation and uninstalling then reinstalling the app and it is still not working correctly. Previously highlighted text looks perfectly fine still but this highlighter "glitch" occurs on every pdf that I open. The attachment I added shows numbers highlighted while it was working properly and how it is working now with the opacity starting at 100% and decreasing by 25% for the four that are clearly different. I would appreciate any suggestion that is not "lower the opacity".

Thank you.

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Rochelle40

Participant

Same problem here - Can we get a fix before the next upgrade? Some of us use this feature every day and need it to complete our work.

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Dianna26792287jz59

Participant

Agreed! I am lost without this tool - it is a basicly daily function for my work. NEED IT FIXED ASAP!

roberth75067798

Participant

Same problem here. Seems to be tied to the most recent update based on multiple users in our org facing the same issue.

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi @roberth75067798

We are sorry to hear that. This issue is reported to our engineering team and they are working on it.

The fix will be available in a future update.

Stay tuned for more information and thanks for your time and patience.

Regards

Amal

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Melvin26707776umnb

Participant

Here's what seems to be working for me. I uninstalled Adobe Acrobat Reader and downloaded the classic version (as opposed to the continuous update version). See https://www.adobe.com/devnet-docs/acrobatetk/tools/ReleaseNotesDC/classic/dcclassic2020base.html

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Dave__M

Community Expert

For what it's worth, my highlighter tool is functioning as expected. Windows, and up-to-date Acrobat Pro DC.

Interesting, and am following this thread.

Dave

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Karla266446684qj1

Participating Frequently

It's the strangest thing. It's as though the highlighter turned into a paint brush. Here is a doc that I had highlighted before and then just tried again...

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Patsy26829190zfz5

Participant

Agreed and it's incredibly frustrating as I use this tool all the time.

christinek2113

Participant

Following, as I have the same issue, although only with the free-form highlighting tool. If I highlight OCR text, the highlighting appears normal (100% opacity, text still fully visible). I'm also seeing that text added via the Comment tool appears at a diminished opacity. I use this tool every day and it has only recently stopped working as normal; I suspect the October update is the problem.