Highlight bar gives me a HUGE elliptical area when I'm just trying to highlight a word or two

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July 2, 2020
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Ok, I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I'm trying to highlight a short sentence or even just a word in a PDF. When I take the cursor over what I want to highlight, I get this oval shape, covering like 10 lines. It's HUGE. How can I make it highlight just the one area on the file? And sometimes it becomes a combo of shapes and sizes

How do I fix this? Where do I go to change the height of this thing and make it just cover the selected text?

최고의 답변: Greg Scher

I have seen this issue when using Chrome.

Try a other browser.

Bernd:

I found the fix for it by selecting the "Save as PDF" in the print dialog box instead of using any other Adobe PDF options that may appear. That corrected the issue. I have attached a screenshot for you to see what my options were.

Greg

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stacy_0088

Participant

The work around of "Save to PDF" works to solve the problem with the highlight area craziness, but then it doesn't open up automatically. Is there any update for a resolution to this issue?

Greg Scher

Inspiring

Not to my knowledge. Adobe is basically directing people to the workaround that I came up with instead of fixing the issue with their code.

Greg Scher

Inspiring

StevieWonder: There is an anomaly in the Acrobat software. Adobe knows about it and has yet to correct the problem for almost 3-years-into the problem. The fix is a simple one and has been posted by me at least once, probably twice, higher up in this thread. When you want a document from the internet or email, simply select the print option, and then under the printer type, select "Save as PDF." See the attached image

Congratulations. You have now performed a workaround for your problem.

Greg Scher

Amal.

Community Manager

Hi StevieWonder

We are sorry for the trouble. As described the highlight tool cursor changes to oval shape covering like 10 lines.

Is this a scanned PDF document without any real text? If yes, you can use Acrobat to recognize text in previously scanned documents that have already been converted to PDF. Optical character recognition (OCR) software enables you to search, correct, and copy the text in a scanned PDF.

Please run the 'Scan and OCR' tool and try to recognize text in the PDF. Go to Tools > Sacn and OCR > Recognize Text > In this file and then try to highlight the text using the Comment Tool.

For more information please refer to the steps provided in the help article https://helpx.adobe.com/in/acrobat/using/scan-documents-pdf.html#recognize_text_in_scanned_documents

Let us know how it goes.

Regards

Amal

Greg Scher

Inspiring

I upgraded from Acrobat 9 Pro to Acrobat 2020 Pro, and I wish I had never wasted my time or money. Acrobat 2020 is extremely user UNfriendly. My most recent and recurring issue is that regardless of whether I download or scan a document, I run the "Scan/OCR" tool and then try to select various words, sentences, or paragraphs, the selection selects an entire block of text that is completely unrelated but within the bounding box identified. This happens no matter if the bounding box is turned on or off. How do I get the selection tool to ONLY select what I want and not what Acrobat wants? In the test document below, I tried to highlight ONLY the first four words of the last sentence of paragraph 5. Please help me with this infuriating thing!

Wa_State_Atty_Oath_of_Admission.pdf