How to change height of highlight

Report · Apr 24, 2015

I am highlighting some text in a document that I converted from a web page using the converter in Acrobat. The highlighting height is about 2 lines of text high, so as I highlight one line it also highlights half of the line above and half of the line below the line I am highlighting. This makes the highlighting very imprecise. It's like highlighting with a very wide, dull highlighter. This doesn't usually happen when I highlight documents, but is happening on this particular document. I can't find any means to modify the height of the highlighter. I am using Acrobat Professional X version 10.1.13.

Here's an example:

Thanks for a fix.

Report · Apr 24, 2015

The highlighter uses the underlying "box" that defines each word. You'll see it acts the same when you select it with the mouse.

This could be the result of an imperfect OCR process, or a bad PDF engine used to create the file. Basically there's not much you can do about it.

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Report · Oct 25, 2023

Not sure why this option is not available to me:

I'm using the following acrobat:

Report · Dec 14, 2021

My redacting looked like a block, rather than redacting by line. The highlighting was too large.

I resaved the pdf document from Word. File -> Export -> Create PDF/XPS Document

and it seems to work now.

Report · Dec 18, 2021

This is a bug in Adobe. The highlighting was never an issue before. It doesn't matter how the file is created -- printed, downloaded, etc. Adobe needs to fix this.

Report · Dec 15, 2022

After I read the comments below about Chrome messing up the document, I decided to try opening it in Microsoft Bing. I printed the document, saved it as a PDF, and wallah... It worked!