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Zeedonk
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May 30, 2016
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Acrobat DC Highlighting- How to highlight in a straight line...?

  • May 30, 2016
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Hi all-

Our office recently installed Acrobat DC and we are becoming more familiar with it as we go...

For me, I receive large scanned document files that I have to read, highlight, redact, sometimes edit and comment.

I am able to use the highlight tool fairly easily, but is there a way to highlight in a straight line, rather than to have the shake of a hand make my document look unprofessional?  The highlighter gives me a circle for a cursor and it does not hug the text line at all.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks

Frank

    Correct answer try67

    The highlighter tool only works on actual text, it's not a free-form tool. If it allows you to select non-text or moves around when you move the mouse then it's not the highlight tool that you're using, but something else.

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    Thwack Digit
    Participating Frequently
    June 19, 2016

    If you are using the "comment" tool and have permission to edit then change to the "edit" tool and try highlighting from there.

    try67
    Community Expert
    try67Community ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    May 30, 2016

    The highlighter tool only works on actual text, it's not a free-form tool. If it allows you to select non-text or moves around when you move the mouse then it's not the highlight tool that you're using, but something else.

    Jon_AK
    Jon_AK
    Participant
    June 3, 2016

    I am having the same issue as well.  Just last week the highlighter tool had a verticle bar as the selection tool and that would highlight in a perfectly straight line the same height as the text.  I didn't make any changes to the way Acrobat DC (latest version) operates but now the highlighter tool is a circle and wobbles all over the place making the document look crummy.  So...  there should be a setting to switch between free form and static but I cannot find it.

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      George_Johnson
      Inspiring
      June 15, 2016

      The yellow marking (see below) was produced as described earlier; the circular cursor doesn't show on the screen shot. This is not the freehand draw tool; that's something else. And this highlight does not work on OCR'd text, unlike the draw tool, which does.


      This is indeed a new type of annotation. Depending on where you look, it's a type of Ink (as reported by JavaScript), Pencil (as shown in the Comments panel), Highlight (as shown in the Properties Bar), or InkHighlight (annotation's IT [Intent Type]) annotation. The InkHighlight IT might be something that is being added to the PDF 2.0 specification as Adobe generally no longer adds new features like this to the spec.

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