Highlighter is bonkers

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
December 19, 2017
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Ok, I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I'm trying to highlight a number on the bank feed we printed to PDF. When I take the cursor over what I want to highlight, I get this oval shape, covering like 10 lines. It's HUGE. How can I make it highlight just the one area on the file? And sometimes it becomes a combo of shapes and sizes - makes no sense whatsoever... I tried the Ctrl + e, but that only allows you to change the color and opacity - where do I go to change the height of this thing and make it a SQUARE to go around an area?

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nmil2018

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I have the same problem, only started today. I compared to PDF's that I created a couple of weeks ago, and they are still highlighting normally. However, new PDF's that I created today are all giving the weird giant oval. I checked every setting I could think of, and could not find a way to fix it.

Document Geek

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I came up with a pretty wonky workaround using custom stamps. I wrote about it here. Scroll all the way to bottom for my favorite method of highlighting objects.

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rickster56

Known Participant

I have the same problem with big yellow blobs appearing. No combination of shift/ctrl/alt works. Any news yet?

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mancaytb

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I've been using Acrobat Pro DC for years and this same thing has started happening to me about 3 months ago. I can't relate it to a version issue. It is as if now when I print to pdf that it is printed my text as one big image rather than multiple lines because it will highlight huge sections.

Help please!

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