Highlighting

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March 8, 2019
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I printed a file to adobe. Now I want to highlight a couple of lines in it. When I try to do that I get a long oval shape and not the highlighted line. What can I do to change it back to the way it was before when it would highlight the line?

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Correct answer emilyd49517958

it appears to not actually recognize the text. Only a small bit of it. I am going to try to save again.

I must have saved it wrong. It works now though. Thank you all so much. Yes, drawing tools to highlight text would be great.

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Sandy33216808fwvs

Participant

I got the same issue and finally figured it out from all these helpful comments.

It was because I printed the pdf from the screen/website. When I went back and downloaded it, I got a version that I could then highlight!!!!

Printing it as a pdf must be the same as scanning it in. I always thought it did not matter if you print or download, and now I know. Thanks so much for helping me get this!

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Lemuel26086329v17b

Participant

So how did you fix it I am getting the same issue.

Meenakshi Negi

Community Manager

Hi Lemuel26086329v17b,

Thank you for reaching out.

When you try to highlight text on the scanned PDF on which the text is a part of the image, the highlighter will appear oval in shape. If that is not the case, please let us know.

Would you mind elaborating on the issue you are experiencing with highlighting text?

Do you experience the behavior with all PDFs? If not, please share the PDF on which the issue occurs.

Thanks,

Meenakshi