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Anonymous
February 7, 2017
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Highlighter not working?

  • February 7, 2017
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Hi all,

I have PDF Pro through work. I have used the highlighter in the past but all of a sudden it no longer works on any of my documents, including Word documents converted to PDF. Whenever I go to highlight the word it does nothing except put a blue box around what was highlighted, nothing else. What could I be doing wrong?

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try67
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try67Community Expert
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February 7, 2017

It sounds like the file is actually composed of images, not real text. As such, you can't use the Highlighter tool on it, as it's a tool that only works on selectable text. You can use another tool, like the Square tool, with a semi-transparent fill color to get a similar result.

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Anonymous
February 7, 2017

So after messing around with it this morning I have gotten it to work using light red and a different shade of green but the usual highlighter colors still do not work.

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Anonymous
February 7, 2017

And now that I have printed, the yellow highlighted text does show up on the printed paper.

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