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Hi
I have been handwriting annotations in PDFs with Acrobat Pro DC for a year and it worked fine, almost as well as on paper. I did not have to select the Comment/Draw mode. I could handwrite with the pen directly with the Hand Tool selected.
About one month ago, it all changed. Since then, I cannot handwrite with the pen directly in the Hand Tool mode. And in the Comment/Draw mode, the handwriting is really bad: every letter is smoothened and deformed, and small letters are often replaced by a dot. I should add that I work on Microsoft Surface Book 2 with a very high resolution touch screen (2160 x 3240). I have tried check for updates and repair installation, but it did not help. I also bought a second Microsoft surface pen, but it was still the same.
Could someone help please?
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It is me again. An Adobe employee (Divya) found a solution over the Chat line. I'll describe it here in case someone else has the same problem:
You need to go to Preferences/General and change Touch Mode from Auto-Detect to Always.
Have a nice day.
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Hi Marc,
As we changed the prefernce for touch mode to always detect instead of autodetect it worked for you.
Thanks for reaching out to adobe support
Regards,
Adobe Support
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This does not work! Still under Edit PDF OBJECTS Edit Using pen is not highlighted and inactive.
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Hi
It is me again. An Adobe employee (Divya) found a solution over the Chat line. I'll describe it here in case someone else has the same problem:
You need to go to Preferences/General and change Touch Mode from Auto-Detect to Always.
Have a nice day.
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It is me again. Unfortunately, the above fix did not work for long. One hour later, the same problem is here again!
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Hi,
same problem here.
If I open a document with Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio and Microsoft Pen 2 with Windows 10 handwriting is deformed and dots become small circles... if I open the same file with a HP PC and Windows 11 all smooth and no deformation.
No use changing the "touch" parameter to always.
What's up??
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I can change it from Auto-Detect to Always, but I can't make it stay that way. The minute I close the Preferences menu, it reverts to Auto-Detect.
BTW, this default Smoothing thing is a really infuriating problem. What I write/draw is what *I WRITE/DRAW*. I don't want it smoothed out into SOMEBODY ELSE'S idea of what looks good! That's sick.
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Hi,
same problem here.
If I open a document with Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio and Microsoft Pen 2 with Windows 10 handwriting is deformed and dots become small circles... if I open the same file with a HP PC and Windows 11 all smooth and no deformation.
No use changing the "touch" parameter to always.
...what can I do?
Thx
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This issue is still happening and I can't find any way to write freehand with a pen properly in scanned forms. All the letters end up smoothed and deformed or become small dots the moment the pen is lifted.