I switched from PC to mac a few months back with a new mac book pro. Ever since, i have not been able to highlight on pdf's which I do a lot. And its getting really annoying. I can't find any articles or discussions that pertain to my issue - which is that it simply doesn't hightlight. I select the text, and it will be boxed like its highlighted, but nothing happens. Can't change colors, just nothing happens. What am I missing here? This is what i run into all the time.
Hi, @KellenKeck, That blue selection square around the text is letting you know that you can make some comments about the selection. If you're not doing that, you can ignore that.
First, I'm assuming you are using the Highlight tool as shown below:
 
What I would like you to do now is to click on the yellow dot, which not only lets you select the color of the highlight, but also the opacity. I tend to keep mine at about 50%, I suspect your's may have been set to 0%. If it is that low, you can't see it. And, if it is set that low, just drag that slider up and you should be good.
Let us know if this is what happened.
 
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Hi, @KellenKeck, That blue selection square around the text is letting you know that you can make some comments about the selection. If you're not doing that, you can ignore that.
First, I'm assuming you are using the Highlight tool as shown below:
 
What I would like you to do now is to click on the yellow dot, which not only lets you select the color of the highlight, but also the opacity. I tend to keep mine at about 50%, I suspect your's may have been set to 0%. If it is that low, you can't see it. And, if it is set that low, just drag that slider up and you should be good.
Let us know if this is what happened.
 
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