Adobe Acrobat DC: Users unable to highlight text in .pdf using various colors.

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May 17, 2018
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Several of our users are unable to highlight .pdf documents using Adobe Acrobat DC in various colors. They've given up and are now highlighting their documents by hand! Please help. Thanks.

Correct answer keith_6591

Click on the color dot and raise the opacity to 100% Worked for me, had to do it twice for ti to stay put though.

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keith_6591Correct answer

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Click on the color dot and raise the opacity to 100% Worked for me, had to do it twice for ti to stay put though.

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HIGHLIGHTER is NOT a HIGHLIGHTER. Seriously? The most BASIC function is no longer available? I don't understand why I would pay for a product like this and suddenly NOT be able to select text and highlight it. I figured it was most certainly 'USER ERROR' [me]. Has anybody figured out how to do this WITHOUT installing some fix-it patch?

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George_Johnson

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This can happen when the opacity setting for new highlight annotations is set too low. This can happen accidentally or via an older bug. Try selecting one of them and checking out its properties to see what the opacity is set to. If that's the problem, you can change the opacity to 100% and make it the default for new highlights that you add.