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pauls96137564
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May 15, 2018
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How to disable automatic smoothing of the pencil tool

  • May 15, 2018
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I'm using adobe acrobat standard DC.

I've been looking all over for this to no avail. When I'm marking up documents, sometimes the automatic smoothing of the pencil tool messes up my writing/drawings. Any Ideas?

Thanks in advance!

    Correct answer harshas13

    Hi Pauls,

    Sorry for the delayed response.

    In Acrobat DC, we do not have an option to disable automatic pencil smoothing.

    Just as a suggestion , you can try our other markup and drawing tools to draw various lines and shapes if that fits your purpose.

    Let me know if that works for you.

    Could you also please share a screenshot of the file indicating the impact of the automatic smoothing of pencil tool so we could check it?

    -Harsha

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    harshas13
    Adobe Employee
    harshas13Correct answer
    Adobe Employee
    May 24, 2018

    Hi Pauls,

    Sorry for the delayed response.

    In Acrobat DC, we do not have an option to disable automatic pencil smoothing.

    Just as a suggestion , you can try our other markup and drawing tools to draw various lines and shapes if that fits your purpose.

    Let me know if that works for you.

    Could you also please share a screenshot of the file indicating the impact of the automatic smoothing of pencil tool so we could check it?

    -Harsha

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    wroyer@ntwo.com
    Participant
    May 4, 2020

    This is ridiculous. It is very difficult to use the pencil feature to make notes or hand-fill a PDF file because of the automatic pencil smoothing/shaping. Listen to your customers. Provide a simple checkbox to turn this "feature" off so that those of us who would like to use the pencil in this manner can do so without having to erase and undo every five seconds. Does anyone even use the Pencil as it was intended by Adobe??

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      amandafoley
      Participant
      July 8, 2020

      Thank you Arvind!

       

      I've updated and applied the registry change and confirmed that this has disabled auto pen tool smoothing in the latest version of Acrobat DC. I appreciate the help!


      Hello, are you willing to share some detailed steps for creating a registry? Thank you.

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