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juliec1967
juliec1967
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December 19, 2017
Question

Highlighter is bonkers

  • December 19, 2017
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Ok, I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I'm trying to highlight a number on the bank feed we printed to 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 - makes no sense whatsoever... I tried the Ctrl + e, but that only allows you to change the color and opacity - where do I go to change the height of this thing and make it a SQUARE to go around an area?

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    nmil2018
    Participant
    October 22, 2018

    I have the same problem, only started today. I compared to PDF's that I created a couple of weeks ago, and they are still highlighting normally. However, new PDF's that I created today are all giving the weird giant oval. I checked every setting I could think of, and could not find a way to fix it.

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    nmil2018
    Participant
    October 23, 2018

    I found that if I directly 'Print to PDF', the highlighter is weird, however if I "Save as PDF", and then open it, the highlighter is working normally.

    It's a couple extra clicks, but totally worth not have the highlighter blob of destruction!

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      E.B.22080707nfxk
      Participant
      December 4, 2021

      This solution offered by nmil2018 works. At first I printed as a pdf and was getting the weird/bonkers highlighting blocks as described in the original post. Then I tried saving as a pdf (I used the same print command CTRL+P, but in the destination field, I selected "Save as PDF" instead of the Adobe PDF option. The resulting document turned out fine where I could select and highlight individual words, or specific lines of text as normal.

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      rickster56
      Known Participant
      February 8, 2018

      I have the same problem with big yellow blobs appearing.  No combination of shift/ctrl/alt works.  Any news yet?

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      mancaytb
      Participant
      December 28, 2017

      I've been using Acrobat Pro DC for years and this same thing has started happening to me about 3 months ago.  I can't relate it to a version issue.  It is as if now when I print to pdf that it is printed my text as one big image rather than multiple lines because it will highlight huge sections.

      Help please!

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