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January 27, 2022
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Area Highlight???

  • January 27, 2022
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I work predominatly with technical drawings and blue prints.  I need to highlight areas NOT just text.  Both Foxit and Revo Bluebeam have area highlight tools.....Adobe does not???  Can't find anything but the mostly useless text line highlighter.   No point in paying for this software if it doesn't have a feature I use every day.  What kind of Idiot designs a PDF editor without this feature???  Searched the community and the web...only relvant answer I found states Adobe doesn't have an area highlighter.  Thanks in advance if you have an answer! 

    Correct answer Chris 486

    The tools I believe you are looking for are in the Comment toolbar and what David is highlighting which is the drawing tools menu. Used them this week for plan work as well!

     

     

    Once you have which shape or polygon selected you can then select the fill color, border color and opacity to customize the options.

     

     

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    Chris 486
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    Chris 486Community ExpertCorrect answer
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    January 28, 2022

    The tools I believe you are looking for are in the Comment toolbar and what David is highlighting which is the drawing tools menu. Used them this week for plan work as well!

     

     

    Once you have which shape or polygon selected you can then select the fill color, border color and opacity to customize the options.

     

     

      Chris 486
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      Chris 486Community Expert
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      January 28, 2022

      Here is the Documentation on using comments in Adobe if that helps as well.

       

      View, reply, print comments in Adobe Acrobat

       

       

        Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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        Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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        January 28, 2022

        Are you referring to these tools:

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          TechUser921Author
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          January 28, 2022

          I don't know as I do not recognize that tool bar. What's it called?  Using Acrobat DC Pro....and so far it sucks.  I've searched through evrying I could find and don't see a match to your screen capture....but thanks for responding.  Also when I do find / set a tool bar it is gone the next time I open the program....so have to start over setting things up in a useful layout.  The tool bars in both of the other progams I've used are orders of magnitude easier to navigate.  Did Adobe intentionally make this program difficult to navigate??? 

          Dave Creamer of IDEAS
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          Dave Creamer of IDEASCommunity Expert
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          January 28, 2022

          As @Chris 486 mentioned, they are part of the Commenting tools. 

           

          Acrobat Pro has a number of different functions--luckily, each function is not hard to learn. It's just the number of functions that are confusing initially.

          David Creamer: Community Expert (ACI and ACE 1995-2023)
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