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December 28, 2014
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text highlight does not show yellow color

  • December 28, 2014
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I have ACROBAT XI installed & updated. During the past month I am no longer able to highlight text.  The text remains unhighlighted however if I click on the text which I wished to highlight a little blue box surrounds the text .... but it is not highlighted.  I have attempted to change colors to no avail.

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    Correct answer sangrover

    Hi,

    It appears that this was a bug that was introduced in the latest update. Others have been able to resolve this issue by using the Acrobat Cleaner tool to uninstall and then reinstall Acrobat. You might try this if you have a few spare moments.

    And can you please share the problem PDF  which was working correctly in the earlier version.


    Thank you

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    Z0MB1E_SL4Y3R
    Participant
    September 15, 2021

    Another solution is changing the highlight field color. I had the same issue and this seemed to resolve it.

     

    Go to Edit / Preferences / Forms / Highlight Color, and change the "Fields highlight color" to yellow or whatever other one you'd like to use. I'm assuming this was automatically changed within the last few updates but I'm just getting around to fixing it lol

     

    Hope this helps!! Love and light ❤️

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    ChrisLeicester
    Known Participant
    January 4, 2019

    I'm having this problem too, and the "Replace Document Colours" trick didn't work for me. However, what did work is by looking in the right-hand side bar where it shows that there is a highlight and clicking on the three dots and then "Properties", the opacity was set to 0%. By changing this to 100%, the comment appeared highlighted.

    On the dialogue box to do this, you can also check "Make properties default" which prevents you having to do this tweak for every single subsequent comment.

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      Rik T
      Participant
      September 17, 2021

      thanks for the solution! You save my day!!

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      kh4488
      Participant
      February 23, 2017

      I SOLVED THIS PROBLEM! 

      My highlights in yellow and light green would not show up on my computer at work, but did in Photoshop (on the same document), and did on Acrobat on my laptop.

      Solution:  go to Edit / Preferences/ Accessibility, and UNCHECK "Replace document colors"

      Presto.  Apparently with this checked, it was treating all light colors as white or no color.

      I tried to find the answer to this frustrating problem (I ended up highlighting in yuk orange) for a couple of years, and then yesterday  got a document with a graphic on the front that showed green on my home computer and white on my work computer.  Light went on -- Googled "Acrobat not showing light colors" and this fix was offered.

      Hope this helps!

        msturner
        msturner
        Participating Frequently
        March 16, 2017

        This was exactly the problem for me.  I forgot I had checked it on another project, so thanks for the solution!

        01371406
        01371406
        Inspiring
        April 24, 2015

        I have had the same "yellow highlight" problem for about 3 months also. Thanks for posting.

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          Adobe Employee
          sangroverCorrect answer
          Adobe Employee
          February 12, 2015

          Hi,

          It appears that this was a bug that was introduced in the latest update. Others have been able to resolve this issue by using the Acrobat Cleaner tool to uninstall and then reinstall Acrobat. You might try this if you have a few spare moments.

          And can you please share the problem PDF  which was working correctly in the earlier version.


          Thank you

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          B15A8
          Participant
          April 19, 2021

          Go to user @kh4488 answer posted Feb 23 2017 in this thread for a potentially simpler solution. Also double check the tool's properties to make sure you are at 100% opacity to actually see the color. 

          try67
          Community Expert
          try67Community Expert
          Community Expert
          December 28, 2014

          That means you just selected the text. You need to first select the Text Highlight tool (under the Comments panel) and then select the text you want to highlight.

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          Anonymous
          December 28, 2014

          Thank you but your solution does not solve the problem. I have repeatedly

          selected the highlight tool first & then drag the tool over the text to be

          highlighted ..... DOES NOT WORK. However, as I indicated earlier, the

          portion to be highlighted has an outlined box around the text IF/WHEN I

          place the cursor over that text!

          On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 4:18 AM, Gilad D (try67) <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

          try67
          Community Expert
          try67Community Expert
          Community Expert
          December 28, 2014

          Can you select each letter individually in this text, or just the entire

          thing as a whole? If then latter then this is not real text but an image

          that contains text in it, and that's why you can't use the Highlight Text

          tool on it.

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