Area Highlight???

[TechUser921]

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! 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

Are you referring to these tools:

[TechUser921]

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]

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.

[TechUser921]

Thank You!

[Chris 486 · Accepted solution]

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]

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

View, reply, print comments in Adobe Acrobat

[TechUser921]

Thanks!!!  Took a little searching / clicking / turning things on....but looks like what I need.  An unspoken part of the service I provide is "Value Added Engineering"....which means pointing out / fixing all of the design and structural errors that need to be addressed before my floor systems or roof trusses can be designed for the structure.  So I spend a lot of time calculating loads / annotating plans for corrections and field use. 

[Chris 486]

Great to hear! I also had to spend a day or so learning the menu/UI system when I needed those tools originally too. Makes sense once you understand it but I'm still ingrained in a top bar menu system from the 90s. Let us know if anything else comes up!