Highlight Tool freehand behaviour changed inexplicably

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October 12, 2022
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Hi,

I'm having some issues regarding the highlight tool recently. Earlier today, I was using Adobe Acrobat Reader normally. When I opened it again, I noticed the highlight tool was no longer leaving a trail before releasing the mouse button while highlighting freehand (See first image).

Also, the highlight I made was different than my other highlights. I tried making the settings of my previous highlights default, but it instead made new highlights seem opaque (See second image).

I tried checking for updates and repairing installation, but to no avail. I also tried this in other PDFs. Text highlighting worked normally, but all freehand highlighting had the same issue. What can I do?

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Meenakshi Negi

Legend

Hi All,

Thank you for being patient.

We have released an optional update that addresses this issue.

Please update the application and check if you still experience the same behavior. In the application, go to Help > Check for updates.

You may refer to the following page for more information on the latest updates: https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/release-note/release-notes-acrobat-reader.html.

Let us know how it goes.

Thanks,

Meenakshi

JR Boulay

Community Expert

Please read this topic: https://community.adobe.com/t5/acrobat-discussions/why-is-the-highlighter-tool-in-adobe-acrobat-pro-suddenly-completely-opaque/td-p/13265739

Acrobate du PDF, InDesigner et Photoshopographe

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Haji345

Participating Frequently

Facing the same issue. Need a fix urgently please.

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jeosutin

Participant

Also experiencing the same issue here, it just started today. And it seems like there's a lot more people suffering from this but hasn't been resolved for a long time.

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Lex267

Participant

I have this same issue, glad I'm not the only one!

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