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stevev78144454
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March 27, 2025
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Highlighting

  • March 27, 2025
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Why do I lose the ability to highlight text in a document. Why I open it the first few times it works, then for no reason it won't lwt me highlight. I thought this was a basic function in the free reader. Do I need to buy a subscription now?

Correct answer try67

OK. It'a what I've been using for years. Don't see a free version of acrobat...


It's called Adobe Acrobat Reader and you can get it here:

https://get.adobe.com/reader/

 

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try67
try67
Adobe Expert
March 27, 2025

No. You should be able to do it in the free Reader.
So what exactly happens when you try to highlight the text and it fails?

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stevev78144454Author
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March 28, 2025

Now when I tru to highlight a text by dragging the cursor over it, the whole page turns the color of the highlight until I stop. It seems that now adobe thinks its an image, not a pdf. This happens with every document. I can do so many highlights and then I can't.

try67
try67
Adobe Expert
March 28, 2025

Sounds like it is composed out of images only... Can you share the file?

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